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From armed citizens patrolling ballot boxes to widespread disinformation about election fraud, there are serious threats to the

stability of our democratic process. When the integrity of our elections is threatened, so too is

our national security.

And that's the key takeaway from a very timely new book

called Our Nation at Risk,

Election Integrity as a national security issue.

And its editors will join me in a moment

have brought together some of the nation's top political scientists,

historians, and legal scholars

for a blunt assessment of this precarious moment for American democracy as well as a look

about how we got here. My guests are Julian Zellzer, a professor of history and public affairs

at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, and NPR

Contributor, and Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law.

And again, they've collaborated to edit this new book

Our Nation at Risk,

Election Integrity as a national security issue.

Professor Zellzer and Professor Greenberg,

welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks for having us.

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