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As Americans headed to the polls on Election Day, a man was arrested after a security screening in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Capitol Police said on Tuesday that the man was stopped during a screening process at the Capitol Visitor Center.

“The man smelled like fuel, had a torch & a flare ****,” it said in post on X, formerly know as

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“The CVC is closed for tours for the day, while we investigate. We will provide more information when we can.”

Our officers just arrested a man who was stopped during our screening process at the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC). The man smelled like fuel, had a torch & a flare ****.

The CVC is closed for tours for the day, while we investigate. We will provide more information when we can.

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Voting on Tuesday unfolded largely smoothly across the country with only scattered reports of delays from extreme weather, ballot printing errors and technical problems.

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Most of the hiccups occurring by midday were “largely expected routine and planned-for events,” said Cait Conley, senior adviser to the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in a press briefing.

She said the agency was not currently tracking any national, significant incidents impacting election security.

More to come…

— with files from The Associated Press

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