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“They arrest one woman in Wichita and suddenly need a "posture" at every polling place in the country — a general already told Congress nobody's coming, and nine days later they're getting sued to keep armed ICE agents away from the same polls anyway. That's not security, that's a stress test on whether people still show up to vote. Meanwhile Tarrant County just closed 92 polling sites on their own — turns out the fastest way to cut down on "irregularities" is to cut down on the places where voting happens.”
“There's no deployment — it's a posture, informed by real cases, like the one in Wichita. And the general was crystal clear: no plans to send anyone to the polls, so suing over it is about a hypothetical — okay, it's the exact scenario the lawsuit describes, fine, but nobody's confirmed it, which is not the same as confirming nothing. I'll stand by that distinction.”
The receipts
Republicans' reconciliation package puts $70 billion into ICE's department NBC News, May 2026
Details on lawsuit to block ICE agents at polling sites ahead of midtermsLiberal-leaning legal group Democracy Forward has filed a lawsuit to block the deployment of ICE agents at polling sites ahead of the midterms. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez breaks it down.
The UN torture rapporteur found direct-contact electric shock gloves "incompatible with the absolute prohibition of torture" - ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on them ABC10 San Diego / UN Special Rapporteur finding, August 2026
Lawsuit challenges intimidation of DHS observers across the countryThe sweeping lawsuit brought by Common Cause argues federal agencies are illegally surveilling and intimidating people who try to peacefully observe federal immigration enforcement activity.
Mariana Alexandra Dewey, a Peruvian national, was arrested by ICE in Wichita after she allegedly voted illegally in the 2024 Kansas election.
A coalition of advocacy groups and a Democratic-led city filed a preemptive lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from deploying armed ICE agents to polling sites ahead of the midterm elections.
Ahead of the November midterm elections, Republican officials in the third most populous county of Texas have voted to slash the number of polling sites by nearly one-third. Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, will have just 224 polling sites for 1.3 million voters. The change was approved in a party-line vote Tuesday, with all…
· DNC recruits lawyers and thousands of ‘voter protection’ volunteers as it braces for contentious midterm elections from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
· No plans to deploy military to midterm polls, Gen. Dan Caine tells Slotkin from the morgue, 1 Sep 2026
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