Date: September 28th, 2020 3:47 PM
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ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis
district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from
elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted by undercover
news organization Project Veritas.
One alleged ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, the brother of
Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman, is shown in a bombshell
Snapchat video rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his
dashboard.
“Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman,” says Mohamed, aka
KingLiban1, in the video. “I have 300 ballots in my car right now . . .
“Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car is full. All these here
are absentee ballots. . . . Look, all these are for Jamal Osman,” he
says, displaying the white envelopes.
“Money is the king in this world . . . and a campaign is driven by money.”
Enlarge ImageRep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
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The video, posted on July 1, was obtained by Project Veritas and included in a 17-minute video expose released Sunday night.
Under Minnesota law, no individual can be the “designated agent” for more than three absentee voters.
The allegations come just five weeks before a presidential
election plagued with predictions of voter fraud. Both President Trump
and Attorney General Bill Barr have warned that the increased use of
mail-in ballots, due to COVID-19 concerns about in-person voting, is
vulnerable to fraud, especially when unsolicited ballots are mailed to
all voters in certain states.
Project Veritas’ investigation in Minneapolis will pour gasoline
on the fire, only 48 hours before Trump debates Joe Biden in the first
presidential debate Tuesday, addressing topics including election
security.
“Our investigation into this ballot harvesting ring demonstrates
clearly how these unscrupulous operators exploit the elderly and
immigrant communities” said James O’Keefe, founder and CEO of Project
Veritas.
The alleged involvement of Omar, a controversial member of the
“Squad” and frequent Trump target, is claimed on camera by two people in
Veritas’ investigation, including whistleblower Omar Jamal, a
Minneapolis community leader and chair of the city’s Somali Watchdog
Group.
He claims Mohamed is “one of” Omar’s “many people.”
“It’s an open secret. She will do anything that she can do to
get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that,”
he told Veritas in an on-camera interview last Tuesday.
“It’s not only her. It’s all this DFL [Democratic-Farmers-Labor] machine [that’s] in . . . the state of Minnesota . . .
“The regulations, if you ignore that and you let corruption and
fraud become a daily business and then tough luck, the country will not
exist as they [Americans] know it.”
Also implicating Omar’s campaign in the scheme is an anonymous
Minneapolis-based former political worker, who told Project Veritas
that, before Minnesota’s primary elections Aug. 8, ballot harvesters
“took every single ballot” from elderly people in a Minneapolis public
housing complex — the Charles Horn Towers.
“Knock on the door and say, ‘Your ballots come? Give it to me.’ ”
She alleges Omar’s long-serving staffer, campaign deputy district director Ali (Isse) Gainey, was “coordinating everything.”
Gainey, “who is working in Ilhan’s campaign, is the one who is
managing the voting place. 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] . . .
“They have perfected this system,” she said. “They will tell
you, ‘We are applying for your ballot.’ They take a picture of your
Social Security and your driver’s license. They have a database. When
the ballot comes, they track it. Sometimes, they make fake emails. They
track the ballot. Then they come and pick up the ballot, unopened . . .
“They don’t give a s–t about any Somali . . . The DFL wants to
win this state at all costs . . . and the victims is the Somali people.”
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She also alleged that young people and women were paid for their ballots before last month’s Minnesota primary.
“Cash, cash, cash. They were carrying bags of money. . . . When
you vote and they mark you off, then you get in the van, they give you
the cash.”
Federal laws forbid paying someone to vote or register to vote, or intimidating voters.
Jamal, who has worked with Minnesota’s Ramsey County Sheriff’s
Office on deradicalization education, helped Project Veritas
investigators unveil what he calls “ongoing election fraud” that
victimizes his community. He secretly recorded conversations with
alleged ballot harvester Mohamed and a member of the DFL, Minnesota’s
version of the Democratic Party.
In one call, Mohamed allegedly explains ballot harvesting: “You
request for the ballot. It will be sent to your house. You will fill it
out and then send it.”
Omar asks: “So they request for the elderly?”
Mohamed says: “Yes, they request for them.”
Omar: “And it is taken away from them?”
Mohamed: “Yes, it is taken away from them.”
In another call, Mohamed says: “I’m working for Jamal Osman [who
is] running for city council in Minneapolis. That’s my young brother.”
Osman, a member of the DFL, won the Ward 6 race for Minneapolis City Council in August.
Another grab from Mohamed’s Snapchat with the time stamp 1:59
a.m. July 2, shows a man brandishing a wad of about 30 ballots with the
words “OFFICIAL ABSENTEE BALLOT” on the front of envelopes. “Two in the
morning, still hustling,” he says.
Project Veritas’ investigation raises serious concerns about the
security of mail-in ballots, and intimidation of vulnerable voters.
While FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate last week,
“We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter
fraud effort in a major election,” troubling examples have arisen in
recent months.
In Paterson, New Jersey, two officials were charged with
election fraud last month after hundreds of mail-in ballots were
discarded. In Pennsylvania, nine military ballots from the 2016
election, most for Trump, were found in a dumpster, it was revealed last
week.
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