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Elissa Slotkin: “Individual troops that are taking those ballots and machines…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 29:38

And actually, it's one of the few places in law where individual soldiers can be held personally liable with up to five years in prison. So it's already enormous risk if the President sends troops in against the law. Those Individual troops that are taking those ballots and machines can be prosecuted individually. Very rare in our. In our. So my message to the troops is go with your training. (29:38–29:43)

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Asserts that individual troops can be prosecuted if they illegally seize ballots or voting machines.

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