Polling-place clash over ICE critique raises free-speech concerns

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A Maine election worker says Homeland Security agents left a voicemail and later confronted her inside a polling place about a social-media post criticizing ICE, an encounter critics say could intimidate voters and poll workers; advocates and lawmakers call for limits on federal monitoring of online speech at polling sites and for protections of free expression during elections.
- Election worker says federal officers confronted her at polls over social media post criticizing ICE AP News
- She posted about ICE. Five months later, DHS agents told her to take her post down NPR
- ICE agents confront New York poll worker during voting, as state prosecutors review incident Democracy Docket
- Syracuse poll worker says ICE agents targeted her on Primary Election Day Spectrum News
- STATEMENT: ICE tracked down a New York woman who posted information she saw in a newspaper. Why her fight is everyone’s fight. FIRE | Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
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