So what happens when ICE is at the Polling stations for midterms?

[AngryBaby]

^ basically summing up that Trump more than likely will send ICE to the polling stations in blue cities in order to ensure "american citizens are voting and not illegals". So...this may cause less turnout and all kinds of fukkery. mail in's likely won't happen either.

what would be the gameplan? How should we move? I would personally go anyway; But figured people probably aren't anticipating this at the moment. But it will certainly happen.

 

[DonB90]

It is a federal crime for the military or federal agents*to interfere in elections or intimidate voters.
The law is crystal clear: It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way. More specifically, it is a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison, to deploy federal “troops or armed men” to any location where voting is taking place or elections are being held, unless “such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.”

Federal and State Election Laws Ban Federal Forces from Polling Places

Americans should feel safe to vote free from intimidation by the presence of the military or federal agents.

www.brennancenter.org

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Federal and State Election Laws Ban Federal Forces from Polling Places

Americans should feel safe to vote free from intimidation by the presence of the military or federal agents.

www.brennancenter.org

Look, the Brennan Center article is technically correct that federal law prohibits armed agents from being inside polling places to interfere with voting. Cool, we get that. But that doesn't erase the broader risk. Legal prohibition doesn't stop an ambiguous presence. ICE or other federal agents can be right outside, visible, intimidating voters, and people will feel fear even if no one technically crosses a line.

The point isn't about "oh no, are they breaking the law?" It's that this administration thrives on chaos, fear, and delegitimizing elections. Trump's rhetoric about stolen elections, "illegals voting," canceling midterms, all of it, is building a climate where normal legal protections may not feel real in practice. This is further back up by SCOTUS and congress letting him do what he wants.

Why do you dudes love trying to dilute any kind of concern raised about this administration? We saw this same thing before the last election, where people called every concern "fearmonger," and now look. We were right. He has built an ecosystem of intimidation and the risk that comes with it is real, even if you don't want to admit it.

 

[AngryBaby]

Federal and State Election Laws Ban Federal Forces from Polling Places

Americans should feel safe to vote free from intimidation by the presence of the military or federal agents.

www.brennancenter.org

you think this will b followed and there isn't a work around?

 

[Wargames]

Bro people gonna vote. I think in this circumstances we would see governors send the national guard and police. It would be a shyt show but I don’t think that stops people

 

[AngryBaby]

Look, the Brennan Center article is technically correct that federal law prohibits armed agents from being inside polling places to interfere with voting. Cool, we get that. But that doesn't erase the broader risk. Legal prohibition doesn't stop an ambiguous presence. ICE or other federal agents can be right outside, visible, intimidating voters, and people will feel fear even if no one technically crosses a line.

The point isn't about "oh no, are they breaking the law?" It's that this administration thrives on chaos, fear, and delegitimizing elections. Trump's rhetoric about stolen elections, "illegals voting," canceling midterms, all of it, is building a climate where normal legal protections may not feel real in practice. This is further back up by SCOTUS and congress letting him do what he wants.

Why do you dudes love trying to dilute any kind of concern raised about this administration? We saw this same thing before the last election, where people called every concern "fearmonger," and now look. We were right. He has built an ecosystem of intimidation and the risk that comes with it is real, even if you don't want to admit it.

it's people that either didn't vote, and still don't want to admit they were wrong for it. Or they attribute some sort of intellect towards dismissing big claims or concerns about this admin and they play their predictions safe. I think it's the former though, I think there a lot of fake militant Tariq followers here that simply did not vote; and didn't expect to be this outrageously and obviously wrong. So you are seeing them stay silent, disappear, or still try to be dismissive because their ego can't handle simply saying "damn, i was wrong".

 

[At30wecashout]

Federal and State Election Laws Ban Federal Forces from Polling Places

Americans should feel safe to vote free from intimidation by the presence of the military or federal agents.

www.brennancenter.org

Illegal has not stopped this admin. Who charges for them showing up at polling places? The DOJ. Bondi ain't doing that.

Not saying they WILL be at polling places, but not saying they won't.

 

[bnew]

nodody is punking me and mines from going to the polls and voting.

 

[CopiousX]

Federal and State Election Laws Ban Federal Forces from Polling Places

Americans should feel safe to vote free from intimidation by the presence of the military or federal agents.

www.brennancenter.org

This is untrue. Those laws are only valuable if the people in power are willing to follow them.

For example, Most states also have laws in place prohibiting Federal officials or law enforcement from carrying out their duties within a court. My own state has these laws. Last week I was dealing with a traffic ticket. Do you know who I saw while I was at the courthouse? Ice. Literally inside of the courthouse, laws be damned.


I encourage you to rewatch the video. The key part of what he was saying was that ice is not following the laws. They are doing illegal shyt with impunity. This is why they will be at the voting stations. The darkest part about this reminds me a lot of the 1960s where black people would be at the voting stations, and they would have armed people at the voting stations verifying whether you are able to vote, verifying stupid shyt ike literacy tests or Civic tests which are only being enforced on non-white people. In the worst case scenario, they pulled black people away and told them they couldn't vote. And the best case scenario, I only had to delay the black people long enough for the voting booths to close.

I admit I came into the video very skeptical of what the guy was saying, but he is being very logical. Conservatives used the exact same tactics before. these were the exact same tactics that were deployed in Nazi Germany too.

The worst part about this is that there's no Central authority for ice. The individual ice officers have been deputized. There have been cases of citizens showing their birth certificate and ice tells them " oh no that's not real, we need to detain you". There have been cases of citizens showing their passports in the ice agent whose deputized themselves as the passport isn't real. . Just last week we had a whole native Americans we've never been anywhere outside of America being detained. For somebody who was actually born in America, this is an inconvenience. The procedure is to pull you aside for questioning..However if they do this to you on voting day, they pull you out before the polling stations close and you never get to cast your vote conveniently against trump. And this is just for the natural born citizens. For citizens you have been naturalized, there have been documented cases of the individual deputized ice agents staring them dead in the face and telling them that their proof documentation is false.

You can't have an election under these circumstances. Its Pure voter intimidation.

 

[Brolic]

what would be the gameplan? How should we move? I would personally go anyway; But figured people probably aren't anticipating this at the moment. But it will certainly happen.

I’m sure more people will vote during midterms, and cacs who aren’t MAGA that voted for Trump will probably stay home or vote for democratic candidates because of inflation and all the other terrible things Trump caused.

 

[Elim Garak]

If it's up to Trump there won't be a 2026 election in the first place.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Our grand and great grandparents had to deal with worse, I’ll be damned if some tub of shyt Chris Farley, Joe Rohan shaped cacs and some cheese dikk Latinos stop me from hitting that ballot box

FOH

 

[AngryBaby]

I’m sure more people will vote during midterms, and cacs who aren’t MAGA that voted for Trump will probably stay home or vote for democratic candidates because of inflation and all the other terrible things Trump caused.

if the dems win the midterms; Trump could be legitimately impeached. ICE would be done with and Kristi Noem gone, aswell as held to trial amongst others...

You don't think trump and JD know this? They will do everything it takes. just assume that.