“ICE isn’t there to patrol the polling places,” Mullin said, adding that agents serving a warrant “will be where we need to be.”
On Sep. 1, Joint Chiefs chairman Dan Caine said no U.S. troops would be sent to polling places for November's midterms, and ruled out any military role in seizing ballots or voting machines.
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DHS says ICE has no polling-location operations planned for the midterm elections.
Explicitly attributed to DHS in the story and carried by NBC News, NYT, Guardian and Politico, but it is a forward-looking departmental assurance about election-day plans rather than verified fact.
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Mullin said ICE could enter a polling place to address a public-safety threat or to serve a warrant on someone agents were already tracking.
Attributed to Mullin in the story's update summary; it is the desk's paraphrase of his carve-out from a single round of remarks, though multiple outlets carry the same statements.
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A senior DHS official said agents have been given no election-day duties beyond their regular work.
Attributed to an unnamed senior DHS official, so it rests on a single anonymous source inside the department.
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The Joint Chiefs chairman said the military has no plans to send troops to polling places for the midterms.
Attributed to the Joint Chiefs chairman (the NYT source file is titled for Caine), but the story does not name him or quote him directly, and it is a statement of future intent.