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Law / United States / Minnesota

Election Deepfake Prohibition and Candidate Forfeiture

Minn. Stat. § 609.771; § 211B.17, .18 (2023 c 58 s 2; 2024 c 112 art 2 ss 76-78)

In force since .

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Place of effect
Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
Elections

What it requires

  • Do not disseminate, or contract to disseminate, an AI-generated deep fake of a candidate without the depicted individual's consent, made with intent to injure the candidate or influence an election, within 90 days of a party nominating convention or during the absentee-voting-through-election-day window before a primary or general election.
  • A conviction can carry imprisonment and a fine, and for a candidate, forfeiture of the nomination or office and disqualification from other offices.
  • The attorney general, a county or city attorney, the depicted individual, or an injured candidate may seek an injunction against a threatened or ongoing violation.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
NIST AI 600-1
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

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Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

The section criminalizes disseminating an election deep fake with the requisite consent and intent elements, and states no duty to keep a log or record of a dissemination.

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What this law does

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Research summary

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It is a crime to knowingly or recklessly disseminate a deep fake, or to enter a contract to disseminate one, without the depicted individual's consent, with intent to injure a candidate or influence an election result, within 90 days before a party nominating convention or after the start of absentee voting before a primary or general election. There is no disclosure safe harbor; the offense turns on lack of consent and electoral intent, not on whether the item is labeled synthetic.

A 2024 amendment added that a convicted candidate forfeits the nomination or office and is disqualified from appointment to another office, and armed the attorney general, a county or city attorney, the depicted individual, or an injured candidate with a civil action for injunctive or equitable relief.

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