Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the election” by dispatching federal poll monitors to five California counties, as voters cast ballots on Newsom’s Proposition 50 redistricting measure.
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it would deploy personnel to polling sites in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law,” ahead of the state’s Nov. 4 special election.
In an interview with KQED’s Political Breakdown, Newsom said the move was a “setup” for the Trump administration to cast doubt on the potential victory of Proposition 50 — a plan to redraw the state’s congressional district lines to advantage Democrats.
Obviously that’s now how it’s going to work. They will strategically send them to polling places where the margins between democrats and republicans is close enough. Send 10 guardsmen and 3 ICE agents to each of these polling places and that may be all it takes to keep the house in 2026.
Below article tells you the 27 districts they will focus on first. How many guardsmen and ICE agents would you need to make any impact on 27 districts?
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/competitive-districts-will-decide-control-house
Edit: that link was from 2024 btw. 2026 probably has a new set of districts.
Only the smaller states are at any real risk, and only if they don’t cooperate with the larger democratic states to place troops to protect the sites
There’s more than enough available to the states if they decide to enforce safety that the feds simply can’t do anything
Are you just describing a full on civil war? There’s not going to be any states protecting other states.
Some of the competitive districts will be in republican states, so they’ll invite the military in (Gov Lee of TN doing this already in Memphis).
For other states, they will need to decide how much they want to escalate the confrontation with the federal government. Places like Arizona or Arkansas may not be able to at all.
And, Republicans only need to win enough seats to maintain the house after their redistricting BS.
Anyway, I hope I’m only describing a sci-fi/fantasy movie, but seeing the lack of respect Trump has for democracy already, I am not that hopeful.
No, I’m describing sending armed security that outnumber what the feds try to send.
If the feds think they still can instigate shit when outnumbered, they might end up starting a civil war - but the states wouldn’t start it.
There’s already other stuff like the health compacts in place between some states. Voting safety compacts might also happen