WATCH: Minnesota fraud scandal takes absurd new twist as veteran blows whistle
EXCLUSIVE: Navy veteran and GOP Senate candidate Adam Schwarze is blowing the whistle on new voter fraud evidence uncovered in the state of Minnesota.
What tipped him off? The state says that he voted in person at the polls in the 2012 presidential election. The only problem is that Schwarze says that "it was physically impossible for that to occur."
Schwarze said that at the time he was nearly 2,000 miles away in the California mountains attending BUD/S, the Navy’s elite training course for SEALs. In fact, Schwarze recalled "I got my a-- beat" specifically for not voting.
"All the instructors, the morning after the election, we woke up, Obama won the election, and they said, ‘Who didn't do their absentee voting?’ And of course it was like a gotcha, none of the SEAL candidates had gone to do their absentee voting. We were all in SEAL training, right? So, they beat the snot out of us for three hours."
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Despite this, Minnesota state records reviewed by Fox News Digital indicate Schwarze voted in 2012. The records, however, do not say who he supposedly cast a ballot for. This has led Schwarze to raise serious voter fraud questions in the already-scandal-ridden state and ask if it happened to him, how many others have "voted" without knowing it.
Minnesota does not require ID to vote, something that Schwarze believes would have made it easy to vote under his name in 2012. He was completely oblivious to this fraud against him until he launched his Senate campaign.
After a reporter fact-checked him for saying he had only ever voted for President Donald Trump, he was shocked to find that records on the Minnesota Department of State's website indeed indicate he voted in person in 2012. Further, records indicate an unknown person registered him to vote the day of the 2009 Minneapolis mayoral election, which was the city’s first election using ranked choice voting. His voter registration became active the day after the 2009 Minneapolis mayoral election.
In response to Fox News Digital's request for clarification on Schwarze's voting record, a spokesperson for the office of Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon simply said that "Minnesota’s election system is governed by extensive state and federal laws to ensure it is honest, secure, and accurate."
"Minnesotans fundamentally trust our election system, which is why we are consistently number one in voter turnout," the spokesperson said, adding that "In 2026, Minnesota ranked #1 by Election Data and Science Lab at the MIT on the Election Performance Index is a non-partisan, biennial survey and analysis comparing election administration policy and performance across the country."
The spokesperson encouraged "anyone who wants to learn more about the election security measures in Minnesota" to visit the state's election security webpage.
The website also asserts that "Minnesota elections are the envy of the nation," and states, "We are proud of our strong voter turnout, laws that ensure access to the ballot, robust security measures, and the transparency that's an essential part of maintaining trust in the system."
Meanwhile, Schwarze believes that this shows that "just like the fraud goes back decades, so does the voter integrity issues."
Schwarze commissioned as a Navy officer in May 2012. He was sent to Naval Amphibious Base Coronado for training the next month. Fox News Digital reviewed a copy of Schwarze’s BUD/S orders, which show his report date for the roughly six-month course as June 12, putting his graduation from the course in December.
Come November, when the presidential election took place, Schwarze said: "I was on a mountain in Mount Laguna, California."
"It was physically impossible for that [vote] to occur," he said.
This comes after Minnesota has been rocked by a widespread Medicaid fraud scandal that was uncovered earlier this year and potentially amounted to billions of stolen tax dollars. Minnesota’s top leaders, including Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who is also running for the U.S. Senate, have been criticized nationwide for having allowed the fraud to spiral out of control during their watch.
To Schwarze, the tax and election fraud go hand in hand.
"The fraud of your tax dollars is not happening in a vacuum. It's connected to other forms of fraud, like election integrity," he said. "Just like the fraud is an iceberg, the tax fraud, once we start rolling that iceberg over, we don't know how big it gets until we fully investigate it."
"We just don't know how deep this goes," he continued.
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Since he discovered his mysterious vote, Schwarze said that his requests to state officials for more information have yet to be fulfilled. He said he does not even know who he is marked as having voted for.
"This clearly shows that we have an election integrity issue in our state," he said. "So, let’s solve the problem. Let's open up the voting log: [Minnesota Secretary of State] Steve Simon, Tim Walz, Peggy Flanagan, Keith Ellison. Let's have same-day voting in person with paper … with an ID; the American citizens want that as well. That's my plea."
"I've fought my entire life for the United States of America. I fought for democracy all over the world," he continued. "And one of the pillars and foundational principles of democracy is free, fair and transparent elections, and we don't have any of those things right now in the United States of America."
Fox News Digital reached out to Walz, Flanagan, Simon and Ellison for comment.