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Elissa Slotkin: “We have a bill... no troops at the polls, just absolutely…”

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

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A conversation with Senate freshman women

Published | Video Starts at 16:32

I mean, he's telling us that if his party doesn't win the election in November, then the elections were rigged. Right. He said it in the State of the Union. He's trying to federalize our elections. And We have a bill... no troops at the polls, just absolutely saying no to deploying people in uniform either around the polls on election day, or to collect voting machines and ballots. and break the chain of custody on those ballots. So I just. As someone who comes from that national security background, who doesn't want the military to be tainted by what this man asked them to do, I think, again, it's not a gender thing. (16:32–16:46)

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Asserts the existence of a bill to prevent military deployment at polls or involvement in election processes.

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