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Election Worker Says Federal Officers Confronted Her at Polls over Social Media Post Criticizing ICE

The warning followed a January Instagram post naming the ICE agent who shot Renee Good, and officials said voting was not disrupted.

  • On Tuesday, two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, including Special Agent Dave Brody, entered a Syracuse polling place to confront poll worker Paigelynne Gonyea regarding her Instagram posts.
  • Agents claimed Gonyea violated federal law by identifying Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in January, in a social media post she insists simply repeated public news reports.
  • Presenting a form letter warning of potential prosecution, the agents pressured Gonyea to sign the document while she was working, an encounter she described as "very 1984."
  • Onondaga County Election Commissioner Dustin Czarny and Republican Elections Commissioner Kevin Ryan condemned the intrusion, noting that federal and state laws prohibit law enforcement from entering polling sites without an emergency.
  • The incident follows President Donald Trump's administration expressing interest in deploying federal agents to polling locations, fueling debate regarding the sanctity of the democratic process and potential voter intimidation.
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Election worker says federal officers confronted her at polls over social media post criticizing ICE

A poll worker says two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s party primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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