That could include putting immigration agents near polling places or attempting to seize voting equipment, they said. She also worried about whether the Trump administration would make changes through the U.S. The White House did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the election officials’ concerns. Recently, administration officials connected the president’s deportation agenda to election administration, an unusual move that alarmed democracy advocates. State election officials who have resisted, most of them Democrats, have said the request violates state and federal privacy laws.