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March 13, 2018

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