Though officially in hiding, the Democrats had been more visible than ever, giving countless interviews from "undisclosed locations" around Illinois, where they stayed out of reach of the Wisconsin state troopers dispatched to bring them back to the Senate.
Over the last few years, several states have created elaborate traffic management centers that are open 24 hours, helping state troopers, dispatching roadside aid trucks and conveying information to drivers through electronic road signs and highway radio channels.
At about 5 p.m., a Michigan State Police trooper was dispatched to Greer's mother's house.
Two state troopers were dispatched today to the home of Senator Robert Rochelle, a Democrat who is a leading proponent of the income tax, after one talk-radio host encouraged demonstrators to drive there and honk their horns.
It may seem absurd that Florida's chief law enforcement officer, Gov. Rick Scott, who is also the Republican nominee in the Senate recount, is in a position to allege crimes by election officials, attempt to seize voting machines and dispatch state troopers to try to intervene in the post-election dispute.
The field office alerted the Pennsylvania State Police, which dispatched troopers to the hotel.
He and other rangers, along with Alaska state troopers, would be dispatched to find them – searching with planes, helicopters or people on the ground.
Mr. Hance set out for Westchester and called the State Police barracks in Tarrytown, which dispatched troopers to canvass 40 miles of snaking highways and byways, searching for the red 2003 Ford Windstar minivan.
He was reminiscing about a night in Baton Rouge when the State House dispatched troopers to drag absent legislators back to their seats, some in bathing suits from their hotel pools and others in various stages of inebriation.
Sometimes, when Ms. Smith has had enough, she said, she puts "the fear of God in them," threatening to dispatch a state trooper to alert their parents.
