This letter below from the U.S. Department of Justice to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has been sitting on my screen for a while — it’s important stuff, and more important, it’s not only Minnesota.

UPDATE: MN’s SoS Steve Simon’s response.

Secretary of State Steve Simon to feds: Nah

Bottom line:

Although some of these letters were sent some time ago, mid-May, and others in June, I’ve noticed concern about them is just now surfacing in establishment media. ??? This is important, DOH! DoJ is going after voter files in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, here in Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin – available letters are linked below.

The letters, this DoJ effort, ostensibly grew from Executive Order 14248, PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS, issued March 25, 2025. The false notion is that elections are tainted, corrupt, fraudulent:

Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic. The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election.

EO 14248 in its entirety:

Nevermind that voter fraud is essentially non-existent, errors are as rare, and suspicion is a product of intense Trumpism blathering lies… well, except for Jake’s voter registration fraud! Voter fraudsters caught are a majority Republican! Voter fraud surfaces in Iowa, Florida and Texas October 30th, 2016. As important is that those voting twice, voting when ineligible, fraudulent registrations, they’re usually CAUGHT! There is no epidemic of voter fraud or voter registration fraud. Here’s a Minnesota example of voter registration fraud, CAUGHT! “No fraudulent ballots were requested or cast in connection with the case.”

What this hysteria does is support efforts to restrict voting, to put higher bars to registration and voting, but enacting heightened proof of citizenship (non-citizens aren’t voting, it’s a non-issue); making registration much more difficult by requiring documentation that’s hard to get; counting of provisional ballots; restricting and eliminating voting by mail; tightening “spoilation” remedies; reduction of polling places and reducing staff creating long, long lines, etc. It’s all anti-democracy (with a small “d”) at its core. And that’s what Project 2025 is all about.

Project 2025_Mandate For Leadership statement regarding voting:

Justice Department’s early moves on voting and elections signal a shift from its traditional role

From the article, “…no evidence of fraud.” DOH!

Multiple reviews in the presidential battleground states affirmed Democrat Joe Biden’s win in 2020, Trump and his allies lost dozens of lawsuits, and even Trump’s attorney general at the time said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.

The “shift from its traditional role” change from Civil Rights to Criminal division means that the focus is not on voting rights, but on limitations and searching for non-existent violations of registration and voting laws. Oh well… onward they go, wasting time and resources, but they’d not regard efforts to limit voting as a waste.

Here are some of the DoJ letters to states — Democracy Docket has done a good job of getting them: