威斯康星州选举官员批准指南，指导地方书记官在联邦执法人员选举日出现在投票站时如何应对，因为一些活动人士担心他们可能会这样做。
Elections officials in battleground Wisconsin have approved guidance for local clerks to help them know what to do if federal law enforcement officials show up at the polls on Election Day, as some activists fear they might do.
威斯康星州麦迪逊讯（斯科特·鲍尔报道）威斯康星州选举官员周四批准了针对地方书记官的指南，帮助他们了解如果联邦执法人员在选举日出现在投票站该如何处理，一些活动人士担心这种情况可能会发生。
SCOTT BAUER MADISON, Wis. — Elections officials in battleground Wisconsin on Thursday approved guidance for local clerks to help them know what to do if federal law enforcement officials show up at the polls on Election Day, as some activists fear might happen.
两党参与的威斯康星州选举委员会的一名共和党委员投出了反对发布该指南的唯一一票，称该指南“只会吓跑一些人，让他们不去投票”。威斯康星州选票上最受关注的竞选是州长选举。
A Republican on the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission cast the lone vote against sending the guidance, saying it “is only going to scare away some people from the polls.”A hotly contested race for governor tops the ballot in Wisconsin.
“我个人认为这份指南没有必要，因为过去201年我们似乎都不需要它，”共和党委员鲍勃·斯宾德尔说。
“I personally think this guidance is unnecessary because we have not seemed to need it the past 201 years,” Republican Commissioner Bob Spindell said.
威斯康星州选举管理员梅根·沃尔夫表示，书记官们被选民关于如果特工出现在投票站会如何处理的问题淹没了。她说，该指南旨在说明如何处理这种情况。
Clerks have been deluged with questions from voters about what they would do if agents showed up at the polls, Wisconsin elections administrator Meagan Wolfe said. The guidance is intended to explain how to handle it, she said.
“我认为这就像我们为协助书记官所做的任何其他应急计划一样，”她说。
“I see this as just like any other contingency planning we do to assist our clerks,” she said.
该备忘录告诉威斯康星州约1800名负责选举的书记官，如果美国移民与海关执法局官员、国土安全部官员、联邦调查局特工或地方执法人员出现在投票站该怎么办。
The memo tells Wisconsin’s roughly 1,800 clerks who administer elections what to do if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, Department of Homeland Security officials, FBI agents or local law enforcement shows up at the polls.
指南称，如果官员到达，投票站负责人应通知市政书记官，市政书记官随后应通知县书记官和州选举委员会。如果特工是来观察的，他们必须像其他观察员一样登记，并受相关规则约束，指南称。
If officers arrive, the guidance says the head of the polling site should inform the municipal clerk, who should then tell the county clerk and the state elections commission. If the agents are there to observe, they must check in like any other observer and be subject to rules governing them, the guidance says.
民主党委员安·雅各布斯表示，她担心穿制服的执法人员可能会对选民造成威胁。委员会同意了她的建议，要求相关指导文件明确指示工作人员：那些计划前往投票站的执法人员应穿着便衣而非制服。
Democratic commissioner Ann Jacobs said she was concerned about uniformed officers intimidating voters. The commission agreed to her recommendation that the guidance tell clerks to encourage law enforcement agents planning to come to the polls to be in plain clothes and not uniforms.
“我们不希望那些全副武装的执法人员距离选民太近，”雅各布斯说，“这与那些穿着便衣、进行悄悄观察的执法人员是完全不同的。”
“I don’t think we want full flak jacket, whatever, law enforcement three feet from our voters,” Jacobs said. “I think that is much different from an ordinary, quiet observation by somebody in plain clothes.”
美国国土安全部官员表示，他们并不打算大规模派遣移民执法人员在投票站巡逻，并将这种担忧称为“制造恐慌的行为”。选举法律专家指出，联邦法律明确规定：政府只有在“抵御美国的武装敌人”时，才被允许在选举现场部署武装部队或执法人员——这一标准非常严格，几乎不可能被满足。
Department of Homeland Security officials have said they don’t plan to send immigration enforcement officers en masse to patrol the polls and have dismissed concerns that they plan to do so as “fearmongering.”Election legal experts say federal law clearly prevents the government from deploying any armed troops, agents or officers to election sites except to “repel armed enemies of the United States” — a high bar to clear.
然而，代表拉丁裔、非裔和亚裔美国选民的组织表示，鉴于唐纳德·特朗普总统正在推行大规模驱逐移民的政策，他们的担忧与移民逮捕案件数量的激增密切相关。
But organizations who represent Latino, Black and Asian American voters say the rhetoric and ICE’s own activity make them worried at a time the number of immigration arrests is soaring as President Donald Trump carries out his mass deportation agenda.
近日，威斯康星州的选举官员们一直在全州范围内举行新闻发布会，解释投票和计票的具体流程。他们表示，预计今年的投票过程不会出现任何异常情况。
Wisconsin elections officials have been traveling the state in recent days holding news conferences to discuss the process for casting and counting ballots. They have been saying they don’t anticipate anything unusual at the polls this year.
“我认为这次选举会和其他选举一样顺利进行，”选举委员会主席、共和党人唐·米利斯在周四表示。
“I expect this election will go like all other elections,” Republican Don Millis, chair of the elections commission, said Thursday.