David Graham

Would it be seizing machines?

Would it be sending troops into the street?

So the broad leeway presidents have and the lack of clarity around how courts would react

Make that a scenario that a lot of experts are concerned about.

I think this question of the purchase of Dominion is really interesting and has definitely raised some alarm bells from people.

Election officials who I trust have been treating that one, I would say, with some caution.

This is somebody who worked in an election administration for a long time, and they're waiting to see whether the new company will actually make big changes or if this is mostly sort of a rhetorical shift designed to appeal to the right.

But there are a lot of concerns at the local level and in other places about what might happen.

We saw election officials in 2020 who have now been forced from office, who stood up to Trump, including many Republicans.

And we've seen election deniers running for and being elected to local offices.

So they now have control over voting in some places.

We have seen Republicans take control of state election authorities in places like North Carolina.

We saw in Colorado an odd situation where a Republican consultant contacted county officials in several counties and asked them to provide access to their voting machines to the federal government.

And he claimed he was working with the White House.

Now, that would be against state law.

All of them told him no.

And the White House said that he was not designated to do this.

But it's a strange situation.

And anything that would provide that kind of third party access would raise questions about the integrity of the system and whether we could trust the votes.

This is a little bit like Trump trying to interfere with state election administration, where it's very clear what the law says.