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Maine's secretary of state says federal election monitors' role is "observation only"

CBS News29 October 2026, 00:18 UTCUnited States of America

The Department of Justice plans to deploy federal election monitors to Maine. They will be stationed at polling places in the cities of Portland and Lewiston as part of the Trump administration's wider push to deploy a record 1,000 election monitors around the U.S. Maine's Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins "The Daily Report" to discuss.

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