[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.