[kelseyfrog]

Right, Trump's ability to cancel the elections depends on whether the people running elections comply. It sounds prudent to compile a survey on who those people are and their propensity to break the law to accommodate the president.

[queenkjuul]

Luckily, for now, those people are at the state level, though republicans are trying to change that.

[reverius42]

And what happens if the state level election workers are up against federal level gunpoint?

[nobody9999]

>And what happens if the state level election workers are up against federal level gunpoint?

It's not like ICE can just roll into a state capitol and stop elections.

How many folks would be required for that at each polling place? Ten? Fifty? There are 3500+ counties in the US, usually with multiple polling places. You'd need tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of troops for that.

And that's a lot of armed thugs. Likely the National Guard would need to be federalized, but I find it hard to believe that commanders would follow such illegal orders.

[vharuck]

To swing Pennsylvania, they'd probably just need to send ICE into Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Tell them to ignore anybody with a MAGA hat. Big and blue cities in purple states are the only necessary targets.

[reverius42]

Right, in a close election, there are only a handful of swing states, and probably only a handful of polling places in each of those where they'd need to deploy ICE to make a big difference.

[testing22321]

Hell just use ICE to arrest them all. Even if they’re out on a week, the election will have passed by then