Security firm hiring armed guards for polls

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Tennessee security firm, Atlas Aegis, has advertised for ex-military personnel to be armed guards at polling places in Minnesota, according to complaints filed with the Attorney General Keith Ellison. The company offered $910 a day. Asking for an injunction were the League of Women Voters and Council on American-Islamic Relations. Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the American-Islamic Council, called it threatening to have armed guards at the polls. It’s like what white militias groups are doing, he said. Nick Harper of the League of Women Voters said: “The fact that they were being sent for the purpose of being intimidating is also a violation of the Voting Rights Act.” Who hired Atlas Aegis was unclear.