Free Speech For People


John,

*We are celebrating a major victory this week.* On behalf of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Minnesota (CAIR-MN) and the League of Women Voters of Minnesota, last week, we filed a federal lawsuit against Tennessee-based private mercenary contractor Atlas Aegis and its chairman for illegal voter intimidation in Minnesota. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants' plan to hire and deploy armed ex-soldiers to polling sites in the state-made public with an advertisement for armed security on election day in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area that appeared on job posting websites on October 6, 2020, as well as interviews with its chairman in "The Washington Post"-constitute illegal voter intimidation under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

On October 23, following the filing of our lawsuit, the Attorney General filed in state court a petition for an order of discontinuance, in which Atlas Aegis agreed to an injunction that Atlas Aegis "not provide any protective agent services . . . in Minnesota from October 22, 2020 through January 1, 2022," and "not seek to intimidate voters, in Minnesota or elsewhere, in connection with the election." After hearing argument in our case this week, the federal court ruled in our favor [ [link removed] ], granting a preliminary injunction that prohibits Atlas Aegis and its chairman from: deploying armed agents within 2,500 feet of Minnesota polling places or otherwise monitoring Minnesota polling places both during early in‐person voting and on Election Day, threatening to do so, or otherwise intimidating voters.

Our ability to win cases like this and to hold these actors accountable for attacking our democracy is made possible by you, our supporters. With just four days until the biggest election of our lifetime, we need to do everything in our power to ensure that every American can vote freely and without fear.

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The right to vote in free and fair elections is a cornerstone of our democracy. Together, we can protect the right to vote and make sure that every American can vote without fear.

Thanks for all you do,

Ben Clements
Board Chair, Free Speech For People


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