“There are checks in place to determine if someone is a non-citizen and they registered to vote, or if someone’s serving a felony probation,” said Linnell. “The system will flag those for further review.”
If anything comes back as problematic, Linnell’s office passes the information along to the County Attorney’s office.
Figures from Anoka Co. Attorney Tony Palumbo’s office show agents investigated 22 possible incidents of election fraud in 2020, post-election. They declined to prosecute or cleared a dozen of the cases, found four instances of election judge error, found error in one, closed another case, and ended up charging four with felony unlawful voting.
“In each of those cases, it was a voter that was serving felony probation,” said Linnell. Felons are not allowed to vote.
So that means there was virtually no election fraud in Anoka County, as four votes out of 212,000 reflects merely less than 2 one-thousands of a percent.
“What we saw was typical for an election year,” said Linnell.
