White House’s chilling warning about midterm elections: ‘Can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around polling locations’

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.

We can offer no guarantee that democrat voters won't be harmed, detained or even murdered while voting.

Honestly, idk why it stopped. That shit enables better voter turnout…

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)

They tried damn hard to steal the ones they lost as well, and know that because of the last year they may not get voted for, for another couple decades. They know they can't win, so they are abandoning democracy.

It goes beyond this. Voter intimidation is classified federally as an "active threat". This is basically a hostile crime that can be dealt with via lethal force. The constitution is built to deal with this. Camping outside poll locations and blocking entry is a crime, and it can be deal with as a crime.

I can definitely see ICE agents prowling around the voting places looking over people's shoulders at who they voted for.

"I see you're voting for AOC. Time to die, friend."

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.

Will not happen.

That's effectively what's happening.

The USPS, under DeJoy (who has long been trying to undermine the USPS from within), has posted this site, which attempts to debunk (i.e., gaslight) over what the change is. They claim the same process applies and only is being clarified, but that's false since now postmarks will use the process rather than the sending date and that's a major change. This is key:

While we are not changing our postmarking practices, we have made adjustments to our transportation operations that will result in some mailpieces not arriving at our originating processing facilities on the same day that they are mailed. This means that the date on the postmarks applied at our processing facilities will not necessarily match the date on which the customer’s mailpiece was collected by a letter carrier or dropped off at a retail location. [emphasis added]

This is entirely to help support GOP legal challenges that will claim that laws which allow election-day postmarked mail-in ballots to be counted can be struck down, because they will encompass votes that took place after election day, and therefore selectively invalidate mail-in ballots. It's essentially poisoning the reliability of postmarks to allow for ballot suppression.

Here's a PBS story about it as well. It also notes that the staffing crunches at the USPS and closing processing facilities will exacerbate the issue since "processing" times will increase, especially for high-volume days like election day.

Edit: David Steiner, not DeJoy, is the current postmaster general.

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.

I live in WA and just drop them off at the county provided ballot boxes, no post office required. There are more of the drop boxes than post offices too.

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.

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

It's sad how accurate this is...

And employment.

I'll believe it when I see it

I hear ya, but consider that will make a VERY tense situation that will likely deter voters from engaging.

How would that lead to a good outcome?

They will have 100 different reasons to invalidate the results anyway.

Their goal will be to "assist" purple states with their voting. I predict big ICE deployments to Pennsylvania this year.

So they can escalate.

I read somewhere that anywhere within 250 mile (I think this was the number) of an airport counts as a boarder

Don't need Antifa. Regular Americans will do just fine. Anyone who believes in democracy and the right of citizens to vote will do just fine.

The optics don't need to get any worse, they're already murdering people in broad daylight...

Problem is people won't show if they fear ICE will attest yhem, even if they are citizens as ICE has already proven.

Its intimidation

At this point they can deploy noone and it will still have the desired effect. People are scared already.

The threat of appearance will be enough for a not insignificant number of people. But also, they can use historical voting numbers to selectively target certain locations. No need to send anyone to the R+17 or the D+22 districts.

I’m sure it doesn’t matter what party you register as, but this is purely racist.

They’re not saying they’ll interfere with elections but they may kidnap anyone who looks like an undocumented immigrant who shouldn’t vote. Generally that’s been people with brown skin.

As a white person who is registered Democrat, I wouldn’t be worried at all. However if I were Hispanic or otherwise not obviously white, I sure as hell would be, and may decide I can’t risk voting

This is exactly what Black Panthers tried to solve half a century ago

If you register independent that prevents you from participating in the large party primaries in many (most/all?) states. You can only vote in the primary for your registered party. So that also locks you out of at least attempting to prevent the Democrats from incessantly fielding dumbass GOP-lite candidates like they've been doing.

Theoretically if you register as Republican that also allows you to surreptitiously torpedo their worst candidates in their primaries, but it's unlikely we'll get enough trolls on board to swing the needle meaningfully with that strategy.

Or differently sounds like a good reason to have black panthers show up and watch ice