secretary
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plural sec·re·tar·ies.
- : a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- : a person employed to handle correspondence and do routine work in a business office, usually involving taking dictation, typing, filing, and the like.
- : private secretary.
- : an officer of state charged with the superintendence and management of a particular department of government, as a member of the president's cabinet in the U.S.: Secretary of the Treasury.
- : Also called diplomatic secretary. a diplomatic official of an embassy or legation who ranks below a counselor and is usually assigned as first secretary, second secretary, or third secretary.
- : a piece of furniture for use as a writing desk.
- : Also called secretary bookcase. a desk with bookshelves on top of it.
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Before that, the secretary himself, Raffensperger, met with von Spakovsky in the summer of 2019 at Raffensperger’s request.
National Association of Secretaries of StateEvery state makes its own voting rules, so it makes sense that the secretaries of state, whose offices handle elections, would have banded together to help people vote.
The secretary of state said this would take a couple of weeks to resolve.
Included in the ban are ads purchased by election officials — secretaries of state and boards of elections — who use Facebook to inform voters about how voting will work.
She previously served as the assistant press secretary and director of women’s media at the Democratic National Committee.
And compare, as noted up top, to Secretary Clinton, who spent years quietly pushing a modernized Cuba policy.
The certification, which lasts three years, was renewed by then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in 2012.
Even Defense Secretary Gates, at least for a time, was open to the notion.
In order to withhold the photographs, the secretary of defense must certify that photographs could cause harm to Americans.
ALEC echoed the ideology of Charles Wilson, the first Defense Secretary in the Eisenhower administration.
He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.