I watched a video this week that made me angry because it showed exactly how easily the people running our elections reach for defensiveness instead of transparency the moment somebody tests them — eight days before Americans vote again.

The footage came from an undercover operation in Minnesota. Journalists disguised themselves as Muslim voters, adopted accents, and asked poll workers direct questions about vouching for other people at the polls. The answers should concern you regardless of your politics. One worker explained exactly how to vouch for someone else's residency. Another walked through vouching for multiple additional voters, no ID required beyond the vouching itself. Nobody in that video cast a ballot. They didn't need to. They needed to document how the system actually works when somebody pushes on it, and they did.

Minnesota's response? Call it outrageous. Call it Islamophobic. Call the people who exposed the loophole the problem.

I saw a second video this morning that bothered me even more. A poll worker, filmed during active early voting at a precinct in a Democratic-leaning area, was asked a simple question on camera: "Do I need to be a citizen to vote?" The answer, from a poll worker who identified as a Democrat: "We don't care about that here."

Sit with that. Early voting is happening right now, this week, for an........

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