Minneapolis prosecutors won't prosecute illegal voter

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office is declining to file charges against a felon who illegally voted in Minneapolis last year, according to a memo obtained by Alpha News.

The document says Clayton Quarles registered to vote and voted in September 2021, “even though his voter registration application asked him to affirm that his sentence had expired, been completed, or been discharged.”

Quarles was serving a two-year probation sentence for his involvement in a June 2019 altercation at Harriet Island in St. Paul. A criminal complaint from the case says he exited a vehicle with a gun in his hand after he began arguing with another man at the park.