Security company accused of recruiting armed guards for Election Day

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Minnesota AG announced that his office launched an investigation into a private security company that has been accused of recruiting armed security guards for Election Day, saying that such an effort would intimidate voters.

“No one may interfere with or intimidate a voter at a polling place, and no one may operate private armed forces in our state," Minnesota AG Keith Ellison said.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison makes an announcement about the former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd on June 3, 2020 in Minneapolis.Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced on Tuesday that his office launched an investigation into a private security company that has been accused of recruiting armed security guards for Election Day, saying that such an effort would intimidate voters.

Atlas Aegis is accused of posting since-deleted advertisements on Facebook for U.S. military Specials Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minnesota on Election Day, according to a filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Minnesota and the League of Women Voters of Minnesota.“Minnesota and federal law are clear: no one may interfere with or intimidate a voter at a polling place, and no one may operate private armed forces in our state,” Ellison said in a news release onHe added: “It would make no one safer and is not needed or wanted by anyone who runs elections or enforces the law. For these reasons, my office is formally investigating Atlas Aegis.

 

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Private security = private army DomesticTerrorists

notcapnamerica We really need to drop the hammer on these anarchist 'militias.'

Mr Ellison approves of Democrat Sponsored Terrorists like Antifa/BLM as Poll Watchers too bad scumbag 18.5 million Veterans will be keeping an eye on polls! No one gives a shit what you think! Americans will go to Vote without Democrat intimidation from Antifa/BLM or anyone else!

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It is voter intimidation. Don't be deterred,, vote.

Yank their gun rights

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