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- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a one-day voting stand-down for service members in October.
- He announced in a two-and-a-half-minute video that commanders must grant the stand-down.
- The stand-down is intended to give service members time to vote in the Nov. 3 elections.
- Hegseth stressed the Pentagon is not directing service members’ candidate choices.
- A March Rasmussen poll found 57 % of likely military voters favor Republicans and 35 % favor Democrats.