Project Veritas has uncovered an illegal ballot-harvesting scheme in Minneapolis run by allies of leftist Representative Ilhan Omar.
Omar’s legmen are targeting the elderly, PV reported, then taking their ballots, filling them out, and turning them in as real votes.
The scheme’s success is no surprise given the city’s overwhelming presence of Somali refugees and immigrants who know nothing about the rule of law or democratic procedures and might think election fraud is legal.
That said, President Trump has called for a probe into the Somali vote-fraud scheme.
The Video
The video features Snapshot footage posted in July at the account of ballot harvester Liban Mohamed.
“Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie,” Mohamed says:
You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these, my car is full. All these are for Jamal Osman.… We got 300 today for Jamal Osman only.
Mohamed was collecting ballots, he says in the PV video, to help his brother prevail in a special election for a vacant seat in the city’s Ward 6 City Council race.
“Our investigation found [the fraud] among three locations inside Ward 6, a ballot harvesting triangle, where the scheme operates,” PV reported: “The Riverside Plaza apartments, the senior citizen community at Horn Towers and the Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services office at 980 E. Hennepin Ave., which also functions as a voting location and ballot drop-off site.”
“Money is everything. Money is the king in this world,” Mohamed says in the video. “If you got no money, you should not be here period. You know what I am saying.”
Insider Fingers Omar
Omar Jamal, an Somali “insider,” contacted PV to help expose the voter fraud. He fingered Mohamed as an Omar operative.
“It’s an open secret,” he told PV. “She [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that.”
Jamal also said so many are involved in the vote-fraud scheme that it might be impossible to stop. “I’m afraid it’s already too big to stop, you know, maybe it’s too late. Maybe it’s already too big to stop,” he told PV. “There’s a lot of people invested in this, you know, and they don’t care how they did it: ‘We win,’ and that’s it.”
Jamal helped PV by talking to a ballot harvester who said he was paid to vote in special election on August 11:
The harvester said Somali-American vote-buying operatives from the Omar machine came to his apartment building to oversee the voter filling out the paperwork.
Omar operatives request the ballots and fill them out for the voters, he said.
“They come to us. They came to our homes. They said: ‘This year, you will vote for Ilhan,’” he said. “They said: ‘We will make the absentee ballots. We will fill out the forms for you and when you get them back, we will again fill it out and send it.”
There was no need to go to the voting site, because the Omar operatives told him: “You stay home and you will not go to the place.”
After the ballots are signed and documented the harvester said he got paid.
“When we sign the voting document and they fill it out is when they give us the money,” he said. “The minute we signed the thing [ballot] for the election. That’s when we get paid.”
The ballot harvester told Jamal he targets the elderly and takes their ballots.
Omar Involved in ‘Shenanigans?’
Even worse, a source told PV that “Omar’s campaign manager Ali Isse Gainey is a key player in the ballot harvesting scheme.”
Gainey “is the one who is managing the voting place,” she said. “They bring them. They line them. They put the open ballots in there and then they take them in and say, ‘Here,’ and the people mark [the ballots].”
The fraud is widespread, the source told PV:
“They’re accepting temporary addresses; they’re accepting all kind of shenanigans,” she said.
“People that are showing their ID: ‘I moved 30 days ago, my ID’s not come back.’ ‘OK, just give us the last four of your social and tell us the address,’ and then somebody else will say ‘Yeah.’ They will send people who are helping them vote and saying: ‘Yeah, I can vouch for this madness,’” she said.
The former campaign worker said Isse and the Omar-connected political machine have turned voter fraud into an organized process for application, registering and tracking the harvested ballots from collection to delivering to polls.
Laws Violated
PV top legal authority says Mohamed and his confederates could have violated state and federal election laws.
Omar’s torpedoes not only broke the law by buying votes but also by intimidating voters, he said.
Another violation of the law is voting for someone else.
For his part, President Trump tweeted a demand that federal prosecutor probe the scheme:
Hennepin County Attorney Jeff Wojciechowski told PV that Mohamed’s scheme is “Illegal, and we will be investigating.”
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
