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Senator Elissa Slotkin is demanding a firm pledge from the Pentagon that U.S. troops won’t be deployed to polling places or used to seize election materials ahead of the midterms, citing past Trump-era threats and National Guard deployments without local consent as red flags. She pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a hearing, asking if he’d follow orders to seize ballots — Hegseth called it hypothetical but affirmed he’d never act illegally. While White House officials deny any plans to militarize elections, federal law restricts military involvement to only extreme threats, and past letters show the military has long maintained an apolitical stance, insisting election disputes belong in courts and Congress, not the barracks.

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