Nicole Perlroth
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Sep
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Yeah, I would say it's the weirdest situation that we've been in since I started studying this stuff.
We are in no way prepared, is my understanding, for some of the coordinated misinformation campaigns that will come at us full throttle in this election.
It wasn't just CISA, it was the State Department.
Their bureau that basically monitored these threats was completely dismantled.
And we saw what happened, I think it was last week,
where they essentially fired everyone on this election commission that their whole job is ensuring, you know, free and fair elections at the state level or helping states offer free and fair elections.
So I'm pretty concerned.
You know, this is coming at us, though.
It's not just Russia.
What could they do?
So my nightmare scenario has always been that we saw in 2016 that Russia got access to the voter rolls.
And they didn't do anything, right, was our understanding, but they got access to them.
And it was clear that they were sort of mapping our election infrastructure.
And the sort of consolation that I would hear at the time was, well, thank God our elections are so decentralized.
They could never hack this thing at scale.
But I think what we have all learned over the last 12 years is our elections come down to a few purple states and a few counties in those purple states.
And my nightmare scenario is you would pull off a hack where you'd essentially go to those voter rolls and mark the people that might vote for the candidate that you don't want to win as not registered.
You would change their registration status.
So they would show up to vote on election day.
And they'd be told, oh, you're not registered.
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