Why Have We Let Somalis Hijack Our Elections?

And How Did So Many Non-English Speakers Ever Pass a Citizenship Test?

Former Naval fighter pilot Will Royster asked a good question after an election defeat, “If we won’t allow Somali pirates to hijack our ships, why do we allow them to hijack our elections?” A conservative Democrat at the time, Royter had lost by just a single vote to machine Democrat John Rizzo in a Republican-free race for a Missouri House seat.

The year was 2010, but by this time Somalis had already become a formidable voting bloc in this heavily Democratic Kansas City district. With the help of the machine, each Somali voter had somehow managed to pass a citizenship test that demonstrated his or her “ability to read, write, speak and understand English.” They also had to pass a civics test in English. Given that only about 30 percent of Somali females are fluent in English, this was an impressive accomplishment.

After the election, Royster started gathering affidavits from election judges, and their testimony suggests just how fluent Democrats were in corrupting ethnic groups. In one polling place, a Somali woman who had earlier been handing out Rizzo literature accompanied four of her fellow Somalis to the registration desk. According to the Republican judge, she signed in for all of them and accepted ballots for them.

“I saw her place the ballots on the table and fill them in herself,” testified the judge under oath. “The same woman came in with several groups of people throughout the day.” Later, a Somali man came in with a half dozen or so of his compatriots and then came back later with seven or eight more. He told some of them to “vote for Rizzo,” and for others he just filled out the ballots for himself.

When the Republican judge confronted the Somali man presumably acting as interpreter, he told her that the voting Somalis were “blind and could not speak.” The man was preciously hip to the fact that blindness is the only legitimate excuse to have an interpreter at the polls. The Democratic supervisor watched and did nothing. “As far as I know,” the supervisor said of the Somali interpreters, “they are able to fill out the ballots for those people and sign the book.”

Other polling places were just as corrupted. At one, a volunteer poll worker “personally witnessed a man escort approximately (30) Somali voters into the polling place.” Another worker at that same site put the number of Somali voters under the man’s sway as “many more than 30.” She also saw him “sign their names in the registration book.” A second Republican judge testified that at her site a Somali man brought in a Rizzo sign, pointed to it, and instructed the four Somali women with him “how to cast their vote and whom to vote for.”

In Somali culture females are easily bullied into voting for the chosen candidate. “The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility,” observed Somali refugee and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali. “Islam is built on sexual inequality and on the surrender of individual responsibility and choice.” The “interpreters” were needed to sheep dog these docile creatures through the polls.

Nothing came of Royster’s petition in 2010 for one primary reason: the local media refused to even mention the word “Somali,” let alone investigate the corruption of the naturalization process. In the years ahead, the media grew even more protective of useful voter fraud. By 2020, they had abandoned whatever principles they once professed and called the abandonment “saving democracy.”

Then still with Project Veritas, James O’Keefe poked this Hydra-headed beast and got clawed for his efforts. In late September 2020, Project Veritas went public with its research into industrial strength vote harvesting in the beast’s belly, Minneapolis.

Using undercover video, Veritas captured several financial exchanges between harvesters and voters, but Veritas’s biggest catch was a video shot by a harvester himself. The harvester was Liban Osman, an ally of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the brother of Jamal Osman then running for City Council in an early special election.

One video, posted on Snapchat, showed Osman sorting through a stack of ballots the way he might a roll of bills. “Two in the morning,” he sang as he sorted, “still hustling.” On camera, Osman boasted about a practice that would have made Boss Tweed blush. “Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie,” said Osman. “You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these. My car is full.”

Thanks to social media, millions of Americans witnessed not only a flagrant vote fraud scheme but also the coordinated disinformation campaign that followed. That campaign involved the Democratic Party, the major media, academia, the local media, and their “fact-checking” allies. Playing by Orwellian rules, the team shielded at least half of America from smelling the rot emanating from the once proud state of Minnesota and allowed it to fester.

In September 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, following President Trump’s lead, upgraded the standards for citizenship. Now if only they could upgrade the media.

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