Protecting election security, how safe is your vote?

At the heart of who we are as Americans and what our country was founded on and represents, is our right to vote, and for that vote to be counted. People have marched, protested, fought and died to ensure that right is preserved and protected. And the potential that this right to vote could be threatened, whether by forces foreign or domestic, especially during perhaps one of the most divisive presidential elections in our history should be of great concern to us all.

For this episode I am joined by Natalie Scala, professor at Towson University to discuss election security, what threats we are facing and what can be done to address these and preserve the security and integrity of our electoral process.

In 2019, Special Counselor Mueller testified to Congress that interference from foreign actors was ongoing and expected to continue into 2020. And now we’re hearing so much about disinformation, and typically that’s happening through social media campaigns. But there is another component here, this idea of voter integrity, to make sure that vote is counted the way the voter intended it to be counted. We have no evidence that votes were ever compromised in 2016, but we obviously don’t ever want that to happen as well.

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