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Maine\u2019s Republican nominee for governor was caught on audio revealing plans to ask for federal agents to be stationed at polling locations during the upcoming midterm elections – an idea critics quickly blasted as \u201cdeeply alarming\u201d and \u201clikely illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bobby Charles told supporters at an Aug. 20 Maine Young Republicans event that he would ask White House border czar Tom Homan to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and U.S. Marshals to voting locations, according to audio obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s my secret,\u201d Charles told the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a friend named Tom Homan,\u201d he continued. \u201cTom and I used to get on Fox all the time together. Tom\u2019s an awesome guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charles added that he planned to ask Homan in roughly three or four weeks before Election Day \u201cto make an appeal for ICE and Marshals to be at our voting booths.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facing questions about the recording, Charles said Wednesday that his point was to ensure Maine election officials could communicate with federal authorities if necessary to \u201cprevent violence at a voting place, in order to prevent intimidation at a voting place and in order to prevent illegality at a voting place,” according to an NBC News report.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEverybody who is legally entitled to vote should be free from any intimidation and should be able to vote,\u201d Charles said in a campaign statement, NBC News reported. \u201cAnybody who is not legally entitled to vote should not be voting.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Department of Homeland Security has previously said there are no plans to deploy ICE agents to polling places, a spokesperson said in a statement to the outlet: \u201cElections exist for the American people, not illegal aliens, to choose their leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maine Democratic Party Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson called Charles a \u201cMAGA extremist\u201d and slammed his proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis plan to ask Trump\u2019s border czar to send ICE agents to Maine polling places just weeks before Election Day is not only deeply alarming \u2014 it is likely illegal,\u201d Murphy-Anderson said.<\/p>\n

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Maine\u2019s Republican nominee for governor was caught on audio revealing plans to ask for federal agents to be stationed at polling locations during the upcoming midterm elections – an idea critics quickly blasted as \u201cdeeply alarming\u201d and \u201clikely illegal.\u201dBobby Charles told supporters at an Aug. 20 Mai…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nGOP nominee\u2019s stunning 'secret' caught on audio as 'likely illegal' scheme takes shape - Property Relocation USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6868\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GOP nominee\u2019s stunning 'secret' caught on audio as 'likely illegal' scheme takes shape - 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