The last Saturday before the Easter holidays in 1973 was Eurovision night. The 18th annual mega TV event was coming from Luxembourg and was a somewhat more significant occasion in the early seventies than it became in later decades.
Both the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and the Rochester Police Department said they would only be responding to a polling place if there's an emergency or a call for service. Marty Probst, the husband of Kim Crockett, the Republican nominee for Minnesota's secretary of state, had called for an Election Day SWAT team earlier this month.
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(NEW YORK) Minnesota elections officials are working to coordinate law enforcement responsibilities on Election Day after the husband of a GOP nominee for the state's top election post was heard on a leaked recording calling for off-duty law enforcement officers to police poll workers at election sites in apparent violation of state regulations.