Better than these guys.
Posted on 03/11/2018 10:07:54 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
More than a dozen top election officials across the country are raising concerns about a provision in a Homeland Security Department reauthorization bill that would allow President Trump to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places.
A letter signed by 19 bipartisan secretaries of state to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) demands the Senate leave out a proposal from final legislation that would allow Secret Service agents to accompany lawmakers to polling places when they vote.
“This is an alarming proposal which raises the possibility that armed federal agents will be patrolling neighborhood precincts and vote centers,” reads a letter obtained by The Boston Globe.
“There is no discernible need for federal secret service agents to intrude, at the direction of the president, who may also be a candidate in that election, into thousands of citadels where democracy is enshrined," the letter continues.
One of the letter's signatories, Democratic Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin called the DHS proposal "worthy of a Third World country."
“This is worthy of a Third World country,” said Galvin. “I’m not going to tolerate people showing up to our polling places. I would not want to have federal agents showing up in largely Hispanic areas.”
"The potential for mischief here is enormous,” he added.
A spokeswoman for the agency denied that the Secret Service agents would be used in a law enforcement capacity, stating that the "clarifying language" was a response to a 2016 incident in which poll workers stopped agents from accompanying a lawmaker to vote over concerns it violated federal law.
“The only time armed Secret Service personnel would be at a polling place would be to facilitate the visiting of one of our protectees while they voted,” Secret Service spokeswoman Catherine Milhoan told the Globe.
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Soros is concerned about this.
With the numerous murder attempts on politicians, I say do it.
Send the cheaters to GITMO.
The Secret Service employs approximately 3,200 special agents, 1,300 Uniformed Division officers, and more than 2,000 other technical, professional and administrative support personnel.
https://www.secretservice.gov/about/faqs
Going to spread them very thin?
But it is the thought that counts.
Better than these guys.
Having feds behind every bush in the county in 1986 during Operation WestVote was the ONLY way we were able to have a fairly honest election and got the longtime corrupt sheriff and his minions voted out of office.
Perhaps they could amend the bill to send ICE agents instead.
Perhaps they could amend the bill to send ICE agents instead.
Hahaha…”citadels where democracy is inshrined,” such as precincts in Philly and Starr Co., TX, where there are more voters than people. These are Democrat voting honey-pots where voter fraud is a way of life.
In Starr Co., in south Texas near the Mexican border, a Mexican American county judge has voted in the past three elections…and he died in 2010. That’s a place that needs the Secret Service at the polling places to prevent voting by the dead.
Cue the photo/video of the Black Panther thugs intimidating white voters at the Philly polling place...
Too bad.
OOPS! You beat me to it!
“This is worthy of a Third World country,” said Galvin.
Got news for you Galvin.
Our election system is fraught with the fraud you support.
What’s are you afraid of? Illegals voting?
FU
Boy, is that title misleading.......it reads as if Trump wants secret service agents to stand guard at polling places......
Remember when you Trunpians claimed to be conservatives?
Mount video cameras on all voting machines, monitor the rooms, picture the ballets.
Trump better do something. How many precincts that have over 120% participation do we need before we understand there is Dem voter fraud.
I do not want to be disenfranchised. Dems are cheaters.
ICE can’t find their way to a Mexican protest or the welfare office.
Illegals and dead people vote in the USA.
This is worthy of a Third World country and democrats need them to win sorry SOB’s.
It is an intentionally misleading headline, and the letter itself is probably also intentionally misleading.
We’re talking about bodyguards for Congressmen, not poll watchers.
US Capitol Police are already legally charged with protecting Congressmen and have jurisdiction throughout the US for that purpose.
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