Highlighting St. Cloud voter fraud?

It's past time Republicans learned how to highlight and fight voter fraud. Jake Judd's article for KNSI Radio should be memorized by every GOP activist in Minnesota. We should officially title it 'The Blueprint.' It's laid out that perfectly.

Things started off innocently enough according to Judd's article when he wrote "According to the Sherburne County investigative report filed October 21st, 2024, on October 4th, 2024, staff at the Sherburne County Auditor/Treasurer’s Office in Elk River discovered that two absentee ballot envelopes had been submitted, both in the same name, Hani Farah Gure, a 26-year-old woman from St. Cloud. Sherburne County Auditor/Treasurer Loraine Rupp made the discovery and immediately contacted the Sherburne County Attorney’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office was then asked to investigate. Sergeant Austin Turner was assigned to the case on October 7th, 2024." After that, things got interesting. In fact, things kept getting more interesting the rest of the way:

On October 9th, 2024, Turner, while on the third floor of the Sherburne County Courts Facility on an unrelated matter, spotted a man in the parking lot who matched the description of the man from the surveillance video.

Turner approached him on foot and introduced himself. The man was friendly, smiling, and said "yes, brother" when Turner asked if he’d be willing to talk. He explained he was working to become an attorney, was involved in his community, and was writing books. He showed Turner photos on his phone of his books for sale on Amazon. He described his activities as helping people overcome barriers to voting, specifically through language translation and transportation assistance.

Turner noted the man was with two women wearing head and body coverings. All three appeared to get into a minivan with Texas license plates that came back registered to a rental company. Turner asked the man directly if he was driving groups of people to vote. The man said yes.

While it isn't illegal to give people rides to vote, it isn't automatically true that there isn't a nefarious motive behind it. After that, things appear to start unravel for the man:

When Turner asked for identification, the man said he didn’t have it with him. He gave his name as Abdi Mahad and denied having credit cards or any other identifying documents. Turner noted the name and ended the encounter.

Turner later wrote that he found it unusual for someone to drive from St. Cloud to Elk River without identification or a credit card. A search of state driver’s license records turned up no record of anyone named Abdi Mahad with his given date of birth of July 12th, 1984, holding a valid Minnesota license.

Turner approached the man again shortly after, this time with a Transport/Court Security Deputy and a body camera rolling. Turner told the man the name he provided appeared to be false and that he needed to verify his true identity.

The man insisted his name was Abdi Mahad. He also denied having driven to the Government Center.

Turner spotted a credit card sticking out of the man’s back pocket. When he pointed it out, the man reached for it, and it dropped to the floor, landing face-up. The name on the card was Tajir Rage. Moments later, a Criminal Investigation Division sergeant arrived with a Minnesota ID card that had just been found on the floor inside the Government Center and turned in. The photo matched the man standing in front of Turner. The name on the card was Tajir Rage, and he had a St. Cloud address.

Abdi Mahad doesn't exist but Tajir Rage exists. Not only does Rage exist but he's got credit cards. That's quite a shift. Still, that isn't the biggest distinction. Check out his wife:

Turner conducted formal, recorded interviews with three members of the Sherburne County Auditor/Treasurer’s staff on October 17th, 2024, using a set of 16 still photographs taken from the October 4th surveillance footage for identification. Selser, who printed both sets of ballot stickers for Gure, told Turner he was aware of a man from the Somali community who regularly brought people in to vote and helped translate for them. He knew the man as "the teacher." When shown the photographs, he immediately identified Rage and said he believed the double ballot stickers were an accident on his part.

He theorized he had accidentally printed a second set of stickers while her information was still on the screen, possibly by brushing his arm against the keyboard. He believed he had processed a second application, unaware it was a duplicate, and acknowledged he should have searched the voter system again before proceeding. Turner also noted that Selser found it unusual that Rage continually brought in groups of people to vote, and that Anderson had previously spoken with those groups about lingering inside the office.

Anderson told Turner that Rage had been bringing in large groups of people, sometimes a dozen at once, since the primary election. From the start, Anderson said staff grew concerned about whether voters Rage brought in truly understood the oath they were required to sign on their ballot applications, an oath written only in English.

This isn't accidental. First, it's too systematic. Next, it's happening too frequently for it to be an unfortunate mistake. After that, things get sticky:

Anderson told Turner that Rage had been bringing in large groups of people, sometimes a dozen at once, since the primary election. From the start, Anderson said staff grew concerned about whether voters Rage brought in truly understood the oath they were required to sign on their ballot applications, an oath written only in English. Anderson worked with the chief deputy auditor/treasurer to create translated copies of the oath in both English and Somali to ensure voters understood what they were signing. Anderson told Turner that when she tried to have Rage fully translate the oath to a voter he was accompanying, he became confrontational, accused her of voter suppression, and demanded her identification. A verbal argument followed.

Finally, there's this:

She also told Turner that she had observed campaign materials for “Hudda,” referring to Ibrahim, left on the ground outside the government center. She recalled that during the primary, while counting ballots, she came across a stack of approximately 50 ballots in which nearly every selection was the same: the name "Hudda." Anderson also raised concerns about the proof of residency documents submitted by voters Rage accompanied. Lease agreements listed many names and had birthdates that often began with "01/01."

That's the personification of suspicious.