Election Administration and Oversight

The DNC has sued the DOJ, DHS and the Pentagon seeking records about whether the Trump administration plans to deploy armed federal agents to polling places, alleging the agencies failed to respond to nearly a dozen FOIA requests. The party says the records are needed to give the public timely knowledge of potential threats to free and fair elections, a concern heightened by Trump’s talk of “nationalizing” elections and an earlier FBI raid on a Georgia election warehouse, though the President has not outlined any formal plan to station armed agents at polls.