TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Oct 30, 2020

A Franklin firm has been barred from deploying armed agents within 2,500 feet of any Minnesota polling place during early voting and on Election Day, the Franklin Home Page reports. The preliminary injunction was issued in a lawsuit against Franklin-based Atlas Aegis, a company accused of attempting to recruit and deploy special forces operators in Minnesota. "The presence of armed ‘guards’ at the polls with no connection to state government is certainly likely to intimidate voters,” U.S. District Court Judge Nancy E. Brasel said in the order.