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RandySF

(82,963 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:28 PM 13 hrs ago

ICE not being deployed to polling places for midterms, state election officials told: Sources

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will not be deployed at polling places during the midterm elections later this year, state election security administrators were told during a call with federal officials Wednesday, according to multiple sources familiar with the call.

Responding to the California secretary of state during the call, Heather Honey, deputy assistant secretary for Elections Integrity at the Department of Homeland Security, called the suggestion that ICE would be present at polling places “disinformation,” according to one person briefed on the call.

In a statement following the call, a DHS official said in a statement: “ICE is not planning operations targeting polling locations. ICE conducts intelligence-driven targeted enforcement, and if an active public safety threat endangered a polling location, they may be arrested as a result of that targeted enforcement action.”

Sources described the first part of the call as routine, with state officials hearing from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service about security for the midterms.



https://kvnutalk.com/ice-not-being-deployed-to-polling-places-for-midterms-state-election-officials-told-sources/

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ICE not being deployed to polling places for midterms, state election officials told: Sources (Original Post) RandySF 13 hrs ago OP
Either Ms. Honey is out of the loop... Fiendish Thingy 13 hrs ago #1
This is good news, IF it's true. I sure hope so. ...n/t CaliforniaPeggy 11 hrs ago #2
ICE won't be at polling places this year, a Trump DHS official promises quaint 4 hrs ago #3

Fiendish Thingy

(22,677 posts)
1. Either Ms. Honey is out of the loop...
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:33 PM
13 hrs ago

Or rumours of ICE at polling places was just another masterful RW troll that defeatist Doomers on the left gobbled up.

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