No, I am not talking about newer laws like the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 or the Insurrection Act of 1807. Those don't really address polling places. But even before those, there was:
The Act of February 25, 1865, commonly called the “Troops at the Polls” Act.
What the heck is that law? The website Uncensored Objection writes;
A polling place is the one room in America where the government has to wait outside.Congress wrote this rule in the middle of the Civil War, and it has stayed on the books for 161 years because every generation since understood the danger. Federal law makes it a crime for any officer of the military, or any person in the civil service of the United States, to order, bring, keep, or control troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held. The only exception covers force needed to repel armed enemies of the United States. Break that law and you face up to five years in prison and a permanent ban from holding federal office.Read those words again. Armed men in the civil service of the United States. That is ICE.In 1909 Congress went back and removed a second exception that had allowed troops to “keep the peace at the polls.” Lawmakers deleted it because they understood that a president who wants soldiers at the ballot box will always find a disturbance to point at. They closed the loophole on purpose, and it has stayed closed for 117 years.
So, if the "Donald" sends troops, he will be breaking a 161-year-old law that was designed to prevent just that!
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