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Happy election Day.

I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Tuesday, November 6th.

In today's news, civil rights advocates are alarmed by what they see as voter intimidation from the president.

Georgia election officials rush to patch security flaws in their voter file. And this election may be decided more by who

doesn't vote than who does. But first, the big idea. President Trump appeared at three campaign rallies on

Monday to make his final pitch before election day and he continued to keep up

his baseless claims that Democrats would allow

undocumented immigrants to overwhelm the country. In Fort Wayne, Indiana,

Trump criticized Maxine Waters, the Democratic Congresswoman from California, and without any evidence said

Democrats will allow immigrants to overwhelm your schools, hospitals, and

communities if they take control of the House. At his final stop in Missouri,

Trump showcased his close ties to Fox News personalities.

He gave Sean Hannity a live interview on stage before the event,

praised Laura Ingram as she began her 10 p.m. show

and called Janine Piero to the stage to praise him. The three rallies he had were all held in states he easily won in 2016 and were Republicans hope to unseat Democratic senators. White House aides have all but given up

on keeping control of the House. Instead the President is trying to shore up the

Senate. Democrats too are confident they'll win the House but not the Senate, but after the 2016 upset took everyone by surprise,

politicians and pundits in both parties seem more hesitant than usual to make any definitive predictions.

If Democrats do flip the 23 seats

they need to win the House though, Nancy Pelosi is poised to make a historic

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