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I expect masked ICE agents to be deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls)

• ecshafer 9mo ago
  Bet. Lets see if we can get this up on polymarket, bet on it.
  • staplers 9mo ago
    You already lost your own bet. "A pair of armed and masked men in tactical gear stood guard at ballot drop boxes in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct. 21 as people began early voting for the 2022 midterm elections." They might be "off-duty" but this is during Biden's admin. They're immensely more emboldened now and local LE will absolutely not enforce any laws restricting this. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/06/election-officials-facing-armed-militia-presence-at-some-polls.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/06/election-officials-facing-ar...
    • ecshafer 9mo ago
      So the goal post moved from ICE or Federal agents being stationed at polling stations to any individual at all?
      • staplers 9mo ago
        The goalposts moved when ICE's hiring standards fell to "any individual at all".
• andsoitis 9mo ago
  > deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls) MOST states (purple, blue, red) have mail-in voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_St...
  • lokar 9mo ago
    For now. The tyrant controls the post office.
  • ceejayoz 9mo ago
    They're working on that. Challenging the rules: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-revives-gop-congressmans-challenge-to-late-arriving-mail-ballot-law https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-revives-... Changing the rules at USPS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-this-new-mail-rule-could-affect-your-ballot-your-tax-return-and-more https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-this-new-mail-rule-c... And I'd fully expect some fuckery via executive orders closer to the election, and SCOTUS to use the emergency docket to let them "temporarily" be enforced.
  • buellerbueller 9mo ago
    It is being restricted. My red state has gone from allowing mail-in ballots that were allowed if they were postmarked by election day, to requiring them to be in by election day. When the postmaster general is a Trump appointee, and the mail has slowed down over the last few years, it makes me wonder if this is deliberate.
  • kgwxd 9mo ago
    They're targeting that too. e.g. recent change to postmark dates.
  • JayNitram 9mo ago
    Correct, which the administration is also trying to remove.