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Georgia Howe (2:21)

Democrats have been sounding the alarm over ICE agents possibly appearing at polling locations on Election Day. But will they actually be there? And what are the legal implications?

John Bickley (2:30)

We're here to help us sort it all out as our DC. Bureau Chief, Tim Rice. So Tim, to start, let's just clarify. Do we expect to see ICE agents at polling locations?

Tim Rice (2:39)

No, John, absolutely not. And it's an important clarification to make up front for two reasons. The first is that Homeland Security Secretary Mark Mullen, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and President Trump himself have all said that there are no plans for ICE agents to be deployed to polling places on Election Day. Now, the reason Democrats and activist groups are talking about it is that the president has in a very President Trump way, at one point over the summer, mused, I think a journalist asked him or something, and he said, ah, you know, maybe we're thinking about it. We're looking into sending them. It might happen. But the second, the ultimately, and the second reason it's important to make this clarification is that they can't do that. Federal agents, with one exception that we can talk about in a second, are not allowed to be at polling places on Election Day. In fact, there are federal laws that govern that local law enforcement can't even be within a specific distance to a polling place unless they are actively stopping a crime. And for federal officials, the bar is even higher. Federal officials are not allowed to be dispatched to polling places unless they are protecting the polling place and the voters they are in from attacks by enemies of the United States. That's actually what it says in federal laws. That's pretty intense. Yeah, a very, very high bar to clear.

So, yes, there are now federal poll watchers, which are volunteers or agents appointed by the Justice Department. They go when, usually when states request them.

Attorney General Todd Blanch has said that his department is going to send around a thousand of these poll watchers to different polling places. We don't know where. We don't know if that's finalized. But again, this is not ICE. They are there just to monitor. This is illegal. It's part of the Voting Rights Act. These are legally allowed and federally appointed watchers. At every given moment in every state, because remember, states, not the federal government, adjudicate how elections work. Every individual state has its own rules governing polling places and things like that. Even if these federal observers do come, they will have to follow state law wherever they go.