CNN's John Sutter talks to secretaries of state about what they're most afraid of. He says the fear is that candidates are trying to undermine election process. One candidate has said, "We've got to vote so much" he can't possibly sneak in enough fake votes for a win. But how these candidates kind of walk that line remains strange and interesting, Sutter asks.
A quartet of 2020 election deniers are running for secretary of state this year in key swing states, raising questions about whether they could fairly administer the 2024 presidential election.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Noel King, who also hosted.
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