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距离今年的中期选举只剩不到两个月时间，民主党人对唐纳德·特朗普总统派遣联邦移民官员或军队前往投票点的可能性愈发感到不安。
特朗普政府在这一可能性上的表态前后不一。参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩将军等部分官员基本驳回了向投票点派兵的说法，但也有其他人暗示，在特定或紧急情况下，可能会派遣军队或官员前往投票站，尽管联邦法律禁止此类行为。
特朗普本人一直态度暧昧。虽然他没有明确表示会采取这一行动，但他过去的多项行动和言论令那些担心他会越权，或是认为这种隐含威胁足以让民众彻底远离投票站的人感到担忧。
“如果政府中有蠢货下令让他们前往那里，这一行为会立即被制止，”非营利组织“选举创新与研究中心”执行董事戴维·贝克尔说道。
“各州已经做好准备，他们会诉诸法庭，”他表示。“但可能政府中的某些官员，甚至总统本人，想要煽动部分选民对这种情况发生的恐惧，让他们主动决定不前往投票站，而非不得不经历试图压制他们投票的麻烦。”
以下是政府或军方高级官员有关向投票地点派遣军队或联邦官员的相关表态：
民众对移民执法部门被派往投票站的担忧，部分源于国土安全部部长马克韦·穆林今年早些时候在政府停摆期间下令向机场派遣移民海关执法局官员的决定。尽管移民执法部门长期以来一直在机场驻守并执行移民法，但大规模部署ICE官员协助维持安保和疏导排队情况仍是新动向。
这也引发了人们对投票站是否会成为下一个目标的担忧，尤其是在本届政府打着毫无证据的幌子，大肆宣称非法移民存在广泛投票欺诈行为的背景下。
“这一切都是总统如何构思一项更大规模计划的手段，即如果你无法通过民主选举保住权力，那就调整民主选举，”马里兰州州长、民主党人韦斯·摩尔今年3月在接受CNN采访时表示。
上周有记者询问穆林是否会在11月向投票站派遣ICE官员，他暗示在特定情况下存在这种可能性。
“我们前往投票站的唯一理由，要么是该投票站受到威胁，要么是我们正在对某名一直追踪的对象执行搜查令，”穆林说道。他随后补充道：“如果我们要执行搜查令，我们会前往需要前往的地方。”
但联邦法律禁止“任何军队或武装人员”被派往“举行大选或特别选举的任何地点”。只有在他们本人正在投票时才可例外。
“我希望他办公室里有人能让他了解美国法典第18篇第592条的内容，”贝克尔说道。“这是非法行为，任何下令他人这么做的人都犯下了联邦罪行。”
国土安全部发言人周五在一份声明中表示，ICE“没有计划开展针对投票站的行动”。但该发言人补充称，某些官员“如果接到当地执法部门的请求”，可能会“在必要时迅速响应突发事件”。
穆林本周的表态呼应了他在确认听证会上对类似问题的回应。“我的官员前往那里的唯一原因是存在需要他们到场的特定威胁，而非为了进行恐吓，”他在3月说道。
凯恩否认了11月向投票站派遣现役美军部队的任何计划。
在回复密歇根州民主党参议员埃莉萨·斯洛特金的信件中，凯恩写道军方“没有计划”派遣联邦军事人员或联邦化的国民警卫队队员前往投票地点。斯洛特金曾要求军方领导人承诺不向投票站派兵。
“同样，联合部队也没有计划使用此类人员扣押选票、投票机或其他与选举相关的物资，”身为美国最高级别军官的凯恩写道。
特朗普并未具体说明今年是否有向投票站派遣军队或联邦官员的计划。但这位总统一直在不断质疑他输掉或对其政党不利的选举结果，并多次提出或试图将联邦控制权凌驾于选举之上，削弱选民对选举安全性和可靠性的信心。
今年1月，联邦调查局突袭了佐治亚州富尔顿县的选举办公室。该州曾是特朗普2020年大选虚假欺诈指控的核心阵地，此前总统及其盟友曾试图推翻该州的选举结果。此次突袭源于对2020年大选选民欺诈指控的调查。
时任国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德到场参与了此次突袭，她的到场引发了争议，因为她的常规职责范围是协调海外情报行动，而非国内执法工作。
此次突袭数天后，特朗普呼吁共和党人将未来的联邦选举“国有化”。这与美国宪法中各州而非联邦政府对本州选举拥有主要控制权的条款相悖。
2020年大选失利后，特朗普的一些助手曾敦促他动用军队扣押投票机。特朗普今年早些时候在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，他后悔没有这么做。
这位总统还签署了两项行政命令，旨在提高投票和申领邮寄选票所需的公民身份证明要求。前一项行政命令被永久叫停，而政府目前正在请求最高法院对后一项命令进行审查。
司法部还试图发起一场全国性运动，以获取各州的选民登记数据。这些努力一直遭到法官的阻挠。
今年早些时候被问及是否会向投票站派遣国民警卫队队员或联邦官员时，特朗普没有排除这种可能性。他表示，自己会“为确保选举公正采取一切必要手段”。
Will the Trump administration send federal officers or troops to the polls? Here’s what we know
2026-09-07T10:00:29.148Z / CNN
With less than two months to go until this year’s midterm elections, Democrats are becoming increasingly unnerved about the possibility of President Donald Trump deploying federal immigration officers or troops to polling places.
Messaging from the Trump administration about that potential has been mixed. While some, like Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, have largely dismissed the notion of a poll deployment, others have left open the possibility of troops or officers being at the polls under specific or exigent circumstances, despite federal laws that prohibit such activity.
Trump himself has been noncommittal. But while he has not explicitly come out to say he would take this step, several of his past actions and comments have worried those who believe he might overstep his authority, or that the implied threat might be enough to keep people away from the polls altogether.
“If there is someone in the administration foolish enough to order them to be there, that will be stopped immediately,” said David Becker, the executive director of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research.
“The states are prepared; they will go to court,” he said. “But it may be that there are members of the administration, and perhaps even the president himself, who would like to inspire in some voters the fear that that might occur, and get them to decide themselves not to show up rather than have to go through the trouble of trying to physically suppress their votes.”
Here is what top officials within the administration or the military have said about the potential of sending troops or federal officers to polling locations:
Concerns about immigration authorities being dispatched to polling places partly stem from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s decision earlier this year to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports during a government shutdown. While immigration authorities have long had a presence and enforced immigration laws at airports, the large-scale deployment of ICE officers to assist with security and lines was a new development.
It also spurred concern about whether polling places could be next, especially given the administration’s broader crusade against what it claims — without evidence — is widespread voter fraud by immigrants in the country illegally.
“These are all tools of how the president is trying to think about a much larger plan, which is, if you cannot hold onto power through democratic elections, then adjust democratic elections,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, told CNN in March.
Asked by reporters last week whether ICE officers could be sent to polling locations in November, Mullin left open the possibility that they could be under specific circumstances.
“The only reason why we would be at polling places, if there is a threat to that polling place or we’re serving a warrant on someone that we have been actively tracking down,” Mullin said. He later added: “If we’re serving a warrant, we will be where we need to be.”
But federal law prohibits “any troops or armed men” being sent to “any place where a general or special election is held.” Exceptions are provided for if they are actively voting.
“I hope someone in his office has made him aware of 18 U.S.C. § 592,” Becker said. “That is illegal, and anyone who orders anyone to do that is committing a federal crime.”
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that ICE “is not planning operations targeting polling locations.” But the spokesperson added certain officers, “if called upon” by local law enforcement, could be poised to “rapidly respond to an incident if necessary.”
Mullin’s comments this week echo a response he gave to a similar question during his confirmation hearing. “The only reason why my officers would be there is if there was a specific threat for them to be there, not for intimidation,” he said in March.
Caine has denied any plans for active US military troops to be deployed to polling locations in November.
In a letter responding to Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat who asked military leaders to commit to not sending troops to the polls, Caine wrote the military has “no plans” to send federal military personnel or federalized National Guard troops to voting locations.
“Likewise, the Joint Force has no plans to use such personnel to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election-related material,” wrote Caine, who is the nation’s highest-ranking military officer.
Trump has not specifically laid out any plans to deploy troops or federal officers to polls this year. But the president has constantly undermined the results of elections he lost or which went poorly for his party, and has made several suggestions or attempts to exert federal control over elections or undermine voters’ confidence in their security and reliability.
In January, the FBI raided the election office in Fulton County, Georgia — a state that had been the centerpiece of Trump’s false claims of fraud in the 2020 election, and where the president and his allies previously tried to overturn the results. The raid stemmed from an investigation into allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Tulsi Gabbard, the then-Director of National Intelligence, was at the raid, and her presence generated controversy given that her typical purview is coordinating overseas intelligence operations and not domestic law enforcement.
Days after that raid, Trump called on Republicans to “nationalize” future federal elections. That would run contrary to provisions in the Constitution that give states, and not the federal government, primary control over their own elections.
After he lost the 2020 election, some Trump aides urged him to enlist the military to seize voting machines. Trump told the New York Times in an interview earlier this year that he regretted not doing so.
The president has also signed a pair of executive orders aiming to boost proof of citizenship requirements for voting and seeking to limit mail-in ballots. The former executive order was permanently blocked, while the administration is asking the Supreme Court to review the latter.
The Department of Justice has also attempted to undertake a nationwide campaign to acquire states’ voter roll data. Those efforts have been consistently blocked by judges.
Trump refused to rule out sending National Guard troops or federal officers to the polls when asked about it earlier this year. He said he would “do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections.”