Some states preparing to counter ICE agents at polls

The Trump administration has been suggesting that U.S. Customs and Immigration agents will be sent to polling places for the midterm elections, and some states are planning to counter any attempt by the federal government to interfere at the ballot box. 

Federal agents can't legally be present at polling places, and there are limits to how close authorities can be, Axios reported. 

However, President Donald Trump has said that he would do "anything necessary" to ensure election integrity. Likewise, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said ICE agents could legally be at polling places if they're serving immigration warrants. 

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver told Axios that it would be "malpractice" for the state not to prepare for the possibility of ICE agents showing up at polls. Her office is training local election officials to ask the agents to leave, and other steps that they would take when faced with unauthorized people at the polls, she said. 

Aghogho Edevbie, Michigan's deputy secretary of state, said Michigan would consider the presence of ICE agents to be "voter intimidation." 

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said there is "very close" coordination among elections officials in her state, and Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read said her office is prepared to deal "with all kinds of disasters."