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They just wholly and completely abandoned their duties and threatened prosecution,” Fontes said. “If they want to apologize for threatening us and ruining perfectly good systems, that’s a good start.

It’s unhelpful to have political leaders, including the secretary of Homeland Security, hinting at imprisoning election administrators who don’t do what they want,” Simon told Votebeat. “That’s just not helpful.

They don’t work with us, they work against us,” Fontes told Votebeat. “Why should I trust them?

‘I don’t trust you,’ [Fontes told the CISA officials.] ‘Your boss came out there and said: We are going to criminalize the work you do. Why should we trust you?’

If they want to apologize for threatening us and ruining perfectly good systems, that’s a good start.

Trump and his DOJ have no right to Coloradans’ sensitive voter information, and we hope the District Court’s decision is upheld.

The DOJ has lost every lawsuit and appeal they have filed in their attempts to access sensitive voter information from the states.

It’s pretty clear states are almost entirely on their own this election cycle and cannot rely on the federal government for election assistance,” said Simon.

The only acceptable amount of voter fraud was 'zero.'

Every one of you need to be out there voting.

I hope we never have to do anything like that again.

I want to maintain trust in the outcome of statewide elections heading into the final stretch of campaign season.

They’re on both sides of the aisle, but they are also recognized as being fair brokers of the truth.

This group here, they’re well-respected members of the community.

I take seriously the obligations under both federal and Pennsylvania law to ensure that only eligible voters have access to the ballot box and to see to it that Pennsylvania’s voter rolls are appropriately maintained and updated.

“This should not be a partisan issue. That’s the hill that I’m willing to die on,” he said during that panel.

The results are going to speak for themselves,” Scanlan told Stateline. “And the results are factual.

We welcome these charges because they show the system works.

The one chance citizens get, the one chance the governed get to keep us in our place, is being the most heavily regulated.

This should not be a partisan issue. That’s the hill that I’m willing to die on.

The results are going to speak for themselves.

Minnesotans value democracy and they’ve proved it once again by showing up to vote in record numbers.

I certainly understand why reports of agents of the federal government at the polls would alarm people, especially here in Minnesota, given what we’ve all gone through over the last several months. So, I want to say we are not taking…

This has been done the last several election cycles under multiple presidents, including President Biden. And Minnesotans may well have voted at a polling place with a federal observer there and not even noticed.