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From KQED. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

Concerns have been building over whether the midterm elections will be free and fair.

But in recent weeks, those worries have exploded.

After the FBI sees ballots and voter rolls in Fulton County and President Trump this month floated nationalizing elections on the podcast

of former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino.

The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least

many 15 places. The Republicans order to nationalize the voting. We have states that are so

crooked and they're counting votes. We have states that I won that show I didn't win.

The president's drumbeat of false claims of a stolen 2020 election, as well as continued

illegal voting and mail-in ballot fraud. They're being felt at the local level by elections officials and voters.

And listeners do worries about election interference.

Have you contemplating getting more involved in this year's election?

Joining me first is Natalie Adona, registrar of voters for Marin County. Natalie, thanks so much for being

with us. Thanks for the invite. Glad to be here. So are you hearing from voters worried about the

safety and security of the elections in light of recent events? And what are you telling them,

if so? Yeah, yeah. I have heard more often now that we're, you know, the June primary is starting to feel real for us in California.

Some voters who are expressing concerns about what they're hearing on the news about the election. And, you know, what I'm telling

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