Can state election officials trust the White House?
By Mary Ellen Klas / Bloomberg Opinion
After federal officials said last week that they didn’t plan to station immigration agents at voting locations during the midterm elections, secretaries of state from across the country had two reactions: relief and skepticism.
In public comments and interviews, they said they were happy to see that the Trump administration appeared to be tamping down speculation that it would send ICE agents to polling places in the name of “verifying” voters. But they were not sure whether to believe it.
“What we heard in the meeting is in stark contrast with what we’re seeing in real life,” Steve Simon, Minnesota’s Democratic secretary of state, told me after the highly publicized virtual confab, which brought together state and federal officials.
The meeting was called by the FBI and attended by officials from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies. Secretaries of state from all 50 states and members of their staff were invited. But what should have been a routine conference call to hammer out how state and federal partners will work together throughout the election cycle instead left elections officials with new doubts.
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Not this white house
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