Security Firm Sued Over Plans to Deploy Ex-Soldiers to Polls

Atlas Aegis LLC’s plans to deploy armed ex-soldiers to Minnesota polling stations is meant to intimidate voters and violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in Minnesota federal court.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota by the Council on American-Islamic Relations—Minnesota and the League of Women Voters of Minnesota.

“Sending private, armed militias to Minnesota’s polling stations violates federal law,” the complaint says. “It must be stopped.”

The complaint also says Atlas has already chilled voter activity by making public statements about its plans to target ...