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Can Trump Deploy Federal Agents to Police the Polls?

Masood Farivar

   In claiming that the 2020 election could be "rigged" by the Democrats,
   U.S. President Donald Trump recently hinted he may deploy federal
   authorities to polling places around the country on Election Day to
   root out corrupt practices that would impact the presidential election.

   Asked during a Fox News interview last week if he planned to deploy
   federal monitors to polling stations Nov. 3 to prevent fraudulent
   voting, Trump replied, "We're going to have everything."

   "We're going to have sheriffs, and we're going to have law enforcement,
   and we're going to have, hopefully, U.S. attorneys. And we're going to
   have everybody, and attorney generals," he told conservative host Sean
   Hannity. "But it's very hard."

   Trump has steadily stepped up his largely groundless assertions that
   the U.S. voting system -- especially the surge in voting by mail in the
   face of the coronavirus pandemic -- is rife with corruption and needs a
   watchful federal eye.

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