Did Rep. Ilhan Omar Say Minnesotans Can Vote without Registering?
A Fox News commentator misrepresented a tweet by the Minnesota representative exhorting her constituents to vote.
- Published 3 November 2020
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On Election Day 2020, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota tweeted to remind her constituents that they could vote even if they hadn’t yet registered, as Minnesota is one of multiple states that allow same-day voter registration:
You don’t 👏🏾 have to 👏🏾 be registered 👏🏾 to go vote👏🏾 in Minnesota 👏🏾 we have 👏🏾 same day 👏🏾 registration 👏🏾 so you 👏🏾 can register 👏🏾 at the polls 👏🏾 https://t.co/iJGlm7Rgih 👏🏾
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 3, 2020
A few hours later, Trump-sycophantic Fox News commentator Sean Hannity issued a deceptive tweet that tried to make it sound as if Omar had improperly told Minnesota residents they need not be registered at all in order to vote:
But Omar had clearly referenced same-day registration, not non-registration, and Minnesota does in fact allow the former (with proper identification and verification of address), as the Minnesota Secretary of State website verifies.
Omar tweeted again to point out Hannity’s misleading attempt to stir up faux voter-fraud outrage:
Where is the lie, we are proud to have same day registration here in the great state of Minnesotan.
Access to the ballot box is a priority for us, I know it’s a hard concept for republican to understand. pic.twitter.com/JZK4OBKtvT
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 3, 2020
