A Start - DOJ Announces Suit vs Minnesota

OPINION | SYSTEM-LEVEL CORRUPTION

If elections can be rigged at scale, and they can be, eventually (or quickly) every seat with leverage will be occupied by a controlled man or woman, with various titles like xyz city councilmember, MN House representative, MN governor, US senator.

Those with lawmaking power will vote yes to changes lobbyists want, tightening controls, protecting criminals, and squeezing the people.

That goes for the federal government too.

But what if enough people could be persuaded that Donald J Trump won the election for president? After all, there was no audit, once again the media simply announced it. (If Kamala had been announced, how many people would have believed it?)

Then, with many assuming Trump is Now president (only as a result of the election) [there are other ways he could have remained president from years before], he then has the DOJ at his disposal to pressure the various states that have the largest election corruption issues, Minnesota being one of them.

Recently, Secretary of State Steve Simon refused to turn over a copy of the state's voter rolls to the DOJ's civil rights division, which today prompted a DOJ suit. Simon is going to be on the defensive for quite some time with this, because it is well known, to those who have thought about it, that there are serious problems with the transparency of the voter rolls. In fact, to my mind, it is highly likely that algorithms or even discrete forms of AI were running on the voter registration and database systems during elections, although of course I cannot prove that—but people like Andrew Paquette perhaps can. Really, it would be better now to throw them out, the voter lists, and start over, probably at the county level, not state, as with the entire voting process and system.

Simon says he wants to protect privacy, but there is no private info on the rolls that is not public—anyone can request the rolls. And many have done for years, in fact to scrutinize the dubious announced results in high level and local races. So why not give them up? The most logical explanation for Simon's refusal to be open about them is that they are dirty. If a roll is dirty, it may contains various kinds of problems, such as examples between slices of the data being shown to the public of voters being turned from active status to inactive status and back to active status. This functionality, if misused, allows mail-in fraud to be executed subtly.

The standard theory of how to manage election results is to monitor the 45 days of absentee voting, even injecting fake numbers (of absentee ballots) in advance based on previous statistical information on a race-by-race level of detail, and then to iron everything out using real-time data from cellular modem (internet connection, such as Verizon R2) enabled tabulators in polling places plus data from the iPads checking people in (again, real time and internet-connected through cellular, such as Verizon).

Now, any centralized administrator, such as perhaps the Secretary of State, who has access to the statewide voter registration system, can view in real time what's going on at every precinct and in every race. It's not hard to imagine that in advance certain races have been targeted that must wind up a certain way, to maintain balances of power, etc. It's even possible to set things up so there are ties at the level of a legislative house, such as the MN House, in 2025, which stirs up people's emotions and creates opportunities for various storylines.

The key is the lack of auditability. Simon himself tried to tell the public in 2020 and 2021 that cast vote records and the ballot images were not a thing, but these are the digital receipts of the electronic equipment, which is now mandated in Minnesota. That is a serious lie because the cast vote records as a national requirement came along with the federal funding of HAVA in 2002 which was the carrot to get the electronic tabulators rolled out across the country faster. Furthermore, very, very few of the actual paper ballots are ever reviewed, only done about 2 weeks post election on a small sample, when, if anything, this should be done the night of the election by humans in each precinct.

I don't blame Simon for doing what he is doing—he doesn't have any good options because he is the point man to hold up the cheat system in Minnesota, in addition to being the president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. His stubbornness and misdirection are useful because they help regular people learn how deception occurs and how an entire system can be architect-ed and propped up through an elaborate con job.

Simon is yet to announce his 4th run for Minnesota Secretary of State, which would extend his career in government that started in the Attorney General's office, then after a short stint for a private firm, continued for 10 years in the legislature, including key rolls on elections committees (bringing in no-excuse absentee voting, online registration, and the electronic poll pad task force), and now serving his 3rd 4-year term as MN Sec of State, the key election official for the state with a $20-million per annum budget, unfortunately largely used to manage election results and perceptions and to 'partner' aka influence local election officials like auditor/treasurers, election managers at county level, even clerks at cities or towns. A lot of people seem to like Simon, he is in a powerful seat and is quite clever, but not many who have realized he has not once done an extra audit of any election in his 11 years, including when Crow Wing County commissioners voted to have their 2020 results audited. One of his more alarming recent contributions was to an October 2024 letter sent from Anoka County to cities like Oak Grove threatening felonies if paper pollbooks (which are legal) were used in the 2024 election.

Indeed, instead of demonstrating openness and accessibility, not just lip service, Simon has said, quoted in the Star Tribune, that anyone questioning elections will have a stain of shame that may never wash off. Well, that's me and perhaps by now 1 million Minnesotans, if extrapolating national polling to Minnesota which shows more than 60% of voters having concerns with electronic voting equipment. By that data, the number would be closer to 2 million voters, across all political parties. That is backed up by conversations I have on the street, which I think are more telling than polling anyway.

Regarding the statement published in the Star Trib, we'll see whose stains won't wash off as things start to get very interesting when the DOJ comes knocking on someone's door. People don't like and don't trust the current system and expect real answers, not elaborate, albeit eloquent words, from a long-time lawyer who has aligned himself with the established bureaucracy plaguing the state and country. Remember, though, it's not only Simon, as there is a network of players, from lobbyists to members of Woodhill to behind-scenes writers of legislation to particular auditors at county level and even unethical election managers in key places, some previously exposed on this website. Likely, those that are marginally involved with the hush-up of the various cheating channels will get out of the way—expect a departure of many local and state government people who don't want to become involved in national or state-level spotlight when a growing number of the people poke their head out from the latest emotional prompt to notice they have been gamed all along.

Erik van Mechelen is an old soul in a young body—he has faced types like Secretary Steve Simon before, as have many he aligns himself with seeking to rid our system of those arrogantly aiming to control other people's lives and remove their choices, often doing overt harm in the process. His recent books include [S]elections in Minnesota: Consequences of the 2020 Election and How to Reclaim Control Over Our Governement (computers run simulations) and Auditing Minnesota: The 2022 SOS Campaign (political parties try to control candidates). When not thinking about elections, he wanders the streets of Minneapolis admiring the ancient architecture.