- United States
- Ohio
- Letter
Please support and co-sponsor the Protect Our Polls Act. This new bill would ban the president from sending armed military or federal agents to polling sites without congressional approval. As a voter in every election, I take Trump’s threat seriously when he says “I should have" when asked about deploying the National Guard to seize ballot boxes in 2020. This is directly out of the Russian playbook. We never had a problem with polling places, alleged fraud, or other voting interference measures until the party in power realized they cannot win unless they cheat, rig elections, and gerrymander districts. Federal law has prohibited this since the Civil War, but Trump has made clear he views those limits as optional. He's already deployed the National Guard to Democratic-run cities over local objections, the FBI raided an elections facility in Fulton County, and the Justice Department tried to seize voter rolls before courts stepped in. The pattern is obvious. The Protect Our Polls Act closes the loophole and requires Congress to sign off before any armed presence appears at a polling site. That's not a partisan request — it's the minimum standard for a free election. Please co-sponsor this bill. Thank you.