Threat of stationing immigration agents around voting locations has become a concern as it can be a deterrent to legal residents of color who are concerned they may be harassed by federal agents
The White House refused to rule out following through on the threat of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents being sent out to “surround the polls” when voters cast ballots in this November’s midterm elections as a way of depressing Democratic turnout and boosting chances of Republican victories in the House of Representatives and Senate.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said she could offer “no guarantee” that ICE personnel would not be stationed at polling sites when Americans are in the process of choosing whether to extend the Republican stranglehold on power at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
She had been asked about former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s recent call for Trump to deploy ICE around election sites on his War Room podcast on Tuesday, just days after Trump himself called for a Republican “takeover” of vote-counting in Democratic-led states and municipalities.
Democratic leadership is sleepwalking us into a permanent state of authoritarian rule.
That’s not fair. They are still working super hard to disarm the people in blue states.
I think it’s open jealousy about how you can get away with practically anything from undermining constitutional amendments to profit personally - all without seemingly being held accountable.
Like not being held accountable for supporting a genocide because of First Past The Post voting forces people to vote for democrats?
The very act of floating this idea is election fraud. Even if they don’t do it, threatening to do it could discourage voters.
We can offer no guarantee that democrat voters won’t be harmed, detained or even murdered while voting.
Republican voters are probably gonna get harassed, arrested, or killed too if they happen to not be white. Then there will be outcry from Republicans who were perfectly fine with it happening to democrats
When Obama ran, local organizations rented vans and escorted people to and from polls.
We can do it again if needed.
How the fuck did we get to a point where it’s normal for the government to say these things?
Conservatives stopped respecting our Constitution and our nation as a whole.
But they’re pretty good at showing up to vote, unlike many other Americans. That, combined with our electoral system being a joke and designed to allow a minority to have control, and you’ve got our current situation.
Capitalism
Obviously.
This is obviously where it was going.
From day one, from the first lie, to the arming of his own private army, this has been the goal. Obviously.
Americans will be surprised, of course. As always.
Americans will be surprised, of course. As always.
No one’s accused Americans of being smart.
“Back when it was step 3, all the alarmists were warning me about how bad step 10 will be. Now that we’re at step 7, the logical thing to do is continue to accuse people of being alarmist.”
- 9 out of 10 Americans (real Americans)
Can’t guarantee I won’t communicate with my community to show up to the polling stations with a large group of armed citizens to ensure we can vote safely without the interference of terrorists.
Doesn’t stop them from ratfucking the votes after they’re submitted, but hey, gotta do what we can.
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You know Jan 6 rioters with guns and pipe bombs who attacked officers got pardon.
And employment.
This is what Hitler’s SA did, so that’s to be totally expected.
Oh no what happens if ICE agents around polling locations are shot dead.
Everyone else at the polling place leaves and probably doesn’t come back.
Polling location(maybe others) are now closed for public safety from the radical left Democrats.
Well I guess we’re going to be exercising our second amendment rights because that’s tyranny.
Let everyone you know that mail-in ballots are still an option… but educate them that they must bring the ballot to the post office IN PERSON, and ask the postal staff to post-mark it IN FRONT OF THEM. I have read (please correct me if I’m wrong!) that works around the recent regulation change that allows dropped-off post to be stamped when it’s delivered, instead of when it’s first dropped off, which is a rat-fucking tactic to increase the likelihood of ballots being marked late, knowing they’ll probably take many days from drop-off to delivery.
Yes however I can attest that some states make it easier than others to do mail-in. For example: WA, automatic mail-in, no questions asked. NC, you need to request it, then have your voting observed and certified by either two witnesses or a notary. Every step of the way highly encourages using your driver’s license number or including a copy, otherwise you have to complete more paperwork. THEN you have to take it to the post office to get marked etc. You also go on a list of absentee voters after it is tallied — a nice little target. I used to do it out of spite until it was just too inconvenient compared to early voting.
in california at least you can still bring your absentee ballot to your polling location to drop off. mine is open a week ahead of time, they got someone sitting there with a ballot box.
Prominent Republicans have been saying this kind of thing, in various ways, since at least the 1980s. If people want to delude themselves and call standard Republican stuff “trumpism” or even more incoherent and nebulous things like “maga”, I don’t know what to tell them. This is stock conservative/Republican stuff.
This is Paul Weyrich in 1980:
Can you imagine getting abducted when you try to vote? Now you don’t have to!
I am sure this will help the voter turnout and is definitely not a thinly veiled threat meant to cause voter suppression.
