An election official confirmed that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s 2023 “Drivers Licenses for All” law allows undocumented immigrants to vote.
This report includes analysis and findings by John Nolte, a Breitbart News contributor who conducted further investigation into the claims.
The law signed by Gov. Walz enables people in Minnesota to obtain a standard driver’s license or state‑issued ID without proving legal immigration status. Critics immediately warned the license could facilitate improper voter registration or fraud.
In a recorded meeting of the Minnesota House, election officials confirmed the suspicions to be true.
The transcription of the conversation reads as follows:
Question: “So we give a driver’s license to anyone here. You don’t have to be a citizen… So if someone comes in, they register, they have the driver’s license, but they have an incorrect social [security number], or no social, or whatever, then they become incomplete, but if they walk in to vote with their driver’s license, does that make them…okay?”
Response: “If [the illegal immigrant] presents the election judge that acceptable identification document, that would clear the challenge from the roster and they would be permitted to cast a ballot.”
Question: “So just to clarify, someone who is not a citizen but who presents a driver’s license … could be permitted to vote.”
Minnesota maintains that people must still sign a citizenship affirmation and provide proof of U.S. citizenship if they want to register to vote. State election officials say the voter registration system cross‑checks identity against data from the Department of Public Safety and Social Security Administration. Further, automatic voter registration in Minnesota only applies when a person has already proven citizenship to DMV or related agencies.
However, in 2024, Republican groups raised alarms after identifying over 1,000 registrations in the state that may have been attributed to noncitizens under automatic registration rules.
Granting state-issued IDs to those in the country illegally blurs the line between citizen and noncitizen, undermining the integrity of the voter rolls. With automatic registration mechanisms in place and mounting evidence of registration errors, opponents warn that Democrats are deliberately creating pathways that erode election security.
