The Aporia
7 articles about 7 events for “Federal Officers At Polls” from Mother Jones.
“At the Las Vegas event, Timmaraju pointed out that Trump officials have been ratcheting up their attacks on medication abortion, federal family planning, contraception and IVF, while telling their supporters that the gloves will really come off after the…”
“…place isn’t wheelchair accessible or doesn’t open on time, or political activists show up with signs—volunteers are prepping for scenarios that would have seemed unfathomable under past administrations: What if ICE shows up at the polls, or the National…”
“Immigration officers don’t normally focus on elections, but lately they’ve been showing up at houses, armed and in uniform, to see if people are illegally registered to vote.”
“Ever charismatic, Mamdani cracked a joke at the host’s suggestion that he could simply lower the cost of matcha lattes to win over voters.”
“Before winning the GOP primary, Flippo also seemed to benefit from an unusual level of support from Nevada GOP chair Michael McDonald, who recorded a message endorsing Flippo before Nevada voters went to the polls.”
““You don’t have a federal backstop anymore,” says Bertrall Ross, a constitutional law expert at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.”
“At a press briefing on Friday, David Becker, a longtime voting rights advocate and the founder and director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a “fiercly nonpartisan” nonprofit, threw a bucket of ice water on fears that the Trump administration…”