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Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis is headed to Harvard.

On April 28, Mollis will join national election officials and experts in a symposium sponsored by the university’s John F. Kennedy School of Government that will focus on ways to improve presidential primaries around the country.

Mollis got the invite because of his role as a member of the Presidential Primary Committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State, his office told Political Scene.

One of the concepts on the agenda at next week’s event is the much discussed idea of instituting four rotating presidential primaries across the country.

“The idea is that Super Tuesday [theoretically] ends the vetting of presidential candidates too early for voters to get a real idea of programs, policies and character,” said Mollis spokesman Christopher Barnett. “By extending the presidential primary season, it forces candidates to spend more time talking to the voters.”

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