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Secretaries of State Condemn Plan to Station Secret Service Agents at Polling Stations

HeadlineMar 13, 2018

A bipartisan group of secretaries of state are condemning a proposal to allow armed Secret Service agents at election polling stations. The proposal has already been approved by the House as part of the Homeland Security Department reauthorization bill. On Friday, 19 secretaries of state wrote a letter to Senate leaders urging them to drop the proposal, calling it “unprecedented and shocking.” We’ll have more on this story after headlines.

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