Without free, fair, open and trustworthy elections, democracy itself is in peril. But the scary truth is that at this moment of extreme political polarization — with a history-changing US presidential election in the balance, and with multiple actors striving to sway voters through means both legitimate and nefarious — we can’t be 100% sure that the voting process will work the way it’s supposed to in November 2020.
In this episode of Soonish, we hear which threats election security experts are most worried about, and how we might imagine a way out of the current mess.
*[This podcast was produced by Soonish and was originally published on October 31, 2019. Click here for a full list of episodes.]
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