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War Department Prepares to Protect Election From Foreign Interference
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from DoD News · North America
Every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and a third of U.S. Senate seats, some 470 contests in all, will be decided during the U.S. midterm elections Nov. 3, and the War Department will help ensure foreign actors don't meddle in the voting.
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