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Politics● ElevatedOct 30 · Oct 30, 2026, 1:26 PM

Ohio secretary of state says Trump DOJ's election monitors will be at polls to "observe"

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Frank LaRose, Ohio's secretary of state, joins CBS News with more details on the Trump administration's deployment of 1,000 election monitors nationwide for the midterm elections.

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