The Justice Department announced last month that its Civil Rights Division would be “monitoring polling sites in Florida and Wyoming for the states’ primary elections to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”

On Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel also indicated that he was not opposed to the idea of dispatching federal agents to voting locations.

Separately, Trump has deployed the National Guard to cities across the country, including Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., with the stated goal of helping combat crime, though the data indicates that crime rates in many of those cities have been falling for years. When…

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