The Pathway Is Documented: Supreme Court Petition Filed as Official Training, County Data, and Hidden-Camera Evidence Confirm Minnesota’s Legislated No-ID Vouching System — August 18, 2026 Intelligence Briefing
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On behalf of the Phillip C. Parrish Intelligence Cell and Operation Shadow Hunt. Unclassified. For public dissemination.
UNCLASSIFIED — FOR PUBLIC DISSEMINATION
Phillip C. Parrish Intelligence Cell
Operation Shadow Hunt
August 18, 2026
Announcement
On August 17, 2026, at 2:55 p.m., I filed a Petition for Correction of Errors, Omissions, and Wrongful Acts with the Minnesota Supreme Court under Minnesota Statutes § 204B.44.
E-MACS Confirmation Number: 1119471786996528021
Respondents are Steve Simon, in his official capacity as Minnesota Secretary of State, and the State Canvassing Board.
The petition is now before the Court. Service was made the same day on the Secretary of State at secretary.state@state.mn.us and by certified mail.
This is not a concession. This is not about whether Mike Lindell and I appear on the November ballot. This is about a criminal industry that legislated a path to low-verification voting, trained election judges to use it, and now treats anyone who documents the pathway as the problem.
If this system is not exposed and dismantled now, the same vectors will decide November 3.
The point is not the ticket
Minnesotans are being told to move on. They are being told the primary is over, the numbers are final, and any remaining questions are sour grapes.
That is a narrative, not a record.
Paper ballots exist. Precinct vouching lists exist. Results-file logs exist. Official training manuals exist. Hidden-camera statements exist. A sitting Anoka County commissioner has said, on the record, that adding modems to otherwise-certified machines rendered the system configuration uncertified in approximately two-thirds of Minnesota counties.
The Canvassing Board can certify electronic totals without looking at any of that. That is precisely why the petition was filed before certification.
What is now substantiated
This is no longer a matter of “anomalies” that require imagination. The pathway is written, taught, used, and confirmed.
1. The statute authorizes it.
Minnesota Statutes § 201.061 allows one registered precinct voter to vouch for up to eight people with no ID from the person being registered. A residential-facility employee may vouch for an unlimited number of residents at that facility. The voucher’s oath is treated as proof of residence.
2. Official training teaches it.
Cam Higby published pages from the Minnesota Election Judge training handbook, Chapter 8, Poll Pad voter registration. Step one instructs judges to select that the voter does not have a Minnesota driver’s license, a Minnesota ID card, or a Social Security Number. Then select residency type “Other” and type of ID “Vouched for.”
That is not a critic’s paraphrase. That is the state’s own instruction.
3. Official county video tells judges not to ask for ID.
Scott Presler published a 2024 Carver County Election Judge training video. The instruction is explicit:
• “Do not ask to see an identification card.”
• If a registered voter presents identification, thank the voter and inform them that an identification card is not required.
• Confirm name and address, point to the oath, and have the voter sign.
Election participation, under that training, can be reduced to a name, an address, and a signature.
4. Poll workers confirm it on camera.
James O’Keefe’s undercover work captured workers stating that the voucher “is the ID” and that one registered voter can authorize up to eight unregistered voters without ID.
Muckraker’s August 17 hidden-camera report captured a worker saying, “You can vouch for up to 8 people,” and, “If you’re vouching for them, they wouldn’t need to show anything.” The worker added that the person doing the vouching “is the documentation.”
5. Official county data shows the pathway is used.
St. Louis County’s Data Practices response, signed by Elections Manager Phil Chapman, documented:
• 2024 General Election: 737 of 13,375 Election Day registrations used vouching — 5.5 percent.
• 2024 Primary: 34 of 572 Election Day registrations used vouching.
737 vouched registrations in one county in one presidential general is more than twice the 312-vote statewide margin that seated Al Franken in 2008. Under the eight-person cap, those 737 people could have been produced by as few as 93 regular vouchers. Facility-staff vouching has no numerical cap.
6. Electronic results already failed in this cycle.
Todd County uploaded an incorrect results file that briefly displayed the wrong winner until paper reports were used to correct it. Blue Earth County had residual test data added to live results. Anoka County Commissioner Jeff Reinert publicly stated he was “appalled” to learn that modem-equipped systems are operating outside the certified configuration, and that this affects roughly two-thirds of the state’s counties.
Paper ballots exist. Electronic totals from a disputed configuration are not self-authenticating.
7. The officials who claim to fight fraud are defending the loophole.
Secretary Simon and Attorney General Ellison have treated documentation of how the system works as misconduct. The handbook, the training video, the statute, and the poll-worker statements are not “disinformation.” They are the state’s own design.
The numbers still do not match the ground
The official statewide picture remains what it was: roughly twice as many DFL primary ballots as Republican primary ballots. That is the picture they want certified.
It is not the picture many Minnesotans report from their own churches, shops, farms, and union halls.
Do the official numbers match what you see?
If they are real, then twice as many people in this state are comfortable with open borders, abortion to birth, and a grift machine that doubles and triples the cost of living. If they are not real, then the hardworking poor are being counted out of their own election.
Either answer requires records. Neither answer is resolved by a press conference.
Why August 18 is not the end of the inquiry
The State Canvassing Board meeting is not a sacrament. It is an administrative act. If it certifies electronic totals without producing:
• precinct vouching lists,
• Election Day registration proof-of-residence methods,
• results-file transmission logs, and
• voting-system configuration certification,
then it has certified a process it has not examined.
The petition asks the Court to require that examination before the books are closed.
What officials must do now
County auditors, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the State Canvassing Board, and federal authorities should take the following steps immediately:
1. Produce precinct-level Election Day registration applications and the Precinct List of Persons Vouching for Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, Dakota, Washington, St. Louis, Todd, and Blue Earth.
2. Produce early-vote versus Election Day candidate splits for the Republican gubernatorial primary.
3. Produce the certified configuration documents for every voting system used on August 11, and a list of every county whose systems include modems or other components that alter the original certified configuration.
4. Preserve all poll books, chain-of-custody logs, and results files. Do not destroy or overwrite them after certification.
5. Hand-count or publicly verify paper ballots in any county where certification status remains unresolved or where a results-file error has already been admitted.
6. Stop treating journalists, poll watchers, and candidates as the threat. The statute, the handbook, and the training video are the evidence.
Closing
The criminal industry did not need to invent a new scheme for August 11. It used the path it wrote into law.
That path is now documented by official training, official county data, official equipment failures, and on-camera statements from the people who run the polls.
Minnesotans are not crazy. When the truth on the ground does not match the official picture, the duty is to demand the records and dismantle the legislated pathway before it decides November.
The petition is in the Supreme Court. The records requests are out. More will come to light.
Christ is King.
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Lindell–Parrish 2026
Phillip C. Parrish Intelligence Cell / Operation Shadow Hunt
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