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Elissa Slotkin: “It is illegal to put uniform military active duty at polling…”

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

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Slotkin Questions DOD Officials on Unlawful Orders, Troops at the Polls, and AI

Published | Video Starts at 00:23

… talking about what he would do if asked to put armed ICE agents at polling locations. And so could you just state for us very clearly, do you believe that It is illegal to put uniform military active duty at polling locations for political purposes. or any other parts of the voting process, ballot, you know, centers for political purposes? Senator, it is strictly illegal to do what you described, putting military at a polling place unless the, as Senator Reid mentioned, the exception for countering an armed rebellion. (00:23–00:47)

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Asserts that deploying military at polling locations for political purposes is illegal.

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