@bmitch @mattblaze Do you think Trump can find enough troops to do that simultaneously for tens (hundreds?) of thousands of polling places all over the country, keeping the troops there all day to be sure nobody sneaks through?

I agree with you about the slide toward might makes right, both that it is happening and that it is sickening. But might is limited by available resources.

@mkilmo @mattblaze @dominykas But how many such incidents would it take to spoil elections in hundreds of districts (and tens of thousands of polling places) all over the nation?

Remember that the US federal election system is a large, highly-distributed system. A denial-of-service attack such as you describe would require orders of magnitude more resources than Trump has yet deployed on anything, for blatantly unlawful actions that many proper-military people will decline.

I don't say it's utterly impossible but it's a lot harder than the not-so-effective attempts to subdue all opposition in Minneapolis.

@cryptadamist @mattblaze @diasyy11 How many ICE guys would it take to do that at a majority of polling stations in every blue-majority city, let alone every blue-majority state? What impact would even an attempt to do that have on voters even in red states? Trump has a core of fascist-fanboi supporters but they're nowhere near a majority. Look at the recent special elections.

@hosford42 @mattblaze @dominykas What concrete actions can Trump take to make states obey his unconstitutional election decrees, given that all the mechanism of elections is in the states, not the federal government?

@hellomiakoda @mattblaze Do you really think Trump will order the military to bomb random-ass polling places?

The question isn't whether Trump can proclaim he's above the law. It's whether he can act on it in any particular case. All the mechanism to run elections is in the several states, not in Washington; Trump can't just order obedience and expect to be followed here.

@mattblaze @dominykas @lastofthem Such as?