Secretary of State’s office says laws may have been broken in Somali translator voting incident

The Minnesota Secretary of State’s office says that if Coleman staffer Mahoumad Wardere was on site at Brian Coyle Center for most of the afternoon that Minnesota election laws were “potentially” broken. According to Beth Fraser, director of governmental affairs at the Secretary of State’s office, an interpreter can only be inside a polling place if they are assisting a specific voter. They cannot remain onsite, as we reported Wardere did, acting as a go-to interpreter.