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US states concerned about election unrest take security precautions

2024-11-05 07:47:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

US states concerned about election unrest take security precautions

As a tense America votes today for Republican Donald Trump or Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president, concerns about potential political violence have prompted officials to take a series of measures to beef up security during and after Election Day.

Many of the most visible movements can be seen in battleground states that will decide the presidential election, states like Nevada where protests by Trump supporters erupted after the 2020 election.

This year, a security fence rings the scene of some of those protests, the centerpiece of the Las Vegas billboard.

A defense official said Monday that Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, Wisconsin and Washington state have current National Guard missions while Washington, D.C., Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia have troops on standby.

In Arizona, a similar metal fence has been erected at the Maricopa County vote tabulation center in downtown Phoenix, a flashpoint in 2020 for rigged election conspiracy theories and threats against election officials.

County Sheriff Russ Skinner said his department will be on "high alert" for threats and violence, and he has instructed staff to be available for duty.

Concerned about the potential for protests or even violence, some Arizona schools and churches that have served as polling stations in the past will not serve as polling stations this year, a local elections official told Reuters./ CNA





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