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US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday threatened state election officials with prison time if they do not comply with the Trump administration’s “mandatory” changes to how they run their elections.

During a press conference, Mullin said that the Trump administration was making so-called “security enhancements” to US elections “mandatory,” adding that any uncooperative states will be penalized.

“If these states want a grant and they want to be reimbursed to run federal elections, they’re going to have to implement security issues,” Mullin said. “We’re saying that your [voting] machines have to be secured and that your voter registration list needs to be scrubbed.”

Later in the press conference, Mullin elaborated further on penalties states could face if they didn’t “scrub” their voter rolls to the administration’s specifications.

“The states that choose… not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure we make those states a priority to look into who voted in their states, and hold then the election officials accountable,” he said. “If the election officials, once we gave them the information they need to secure their elections, and they chose not to, then those individuals can also be held accountable.”

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