Minnesotans leave ‘I Voted’ stickers at Alex Pretti and Renee Good memorials as ‘democracy guardians’ watch polls

Residents send message on deportations while grassroots organizers aim to prevent federal election interference

Minnesota voters left “I Voted” stickers on memorial sites for Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, the two US citizens killed by federal immigration officials earlier this year, while organizers in the area deployed their “democracy guardians” to visit and monitor polling sites for disturbances or the federal government.

Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Good, a writer and mother of three, were killed during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in the Minneapolis region in January.

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