Election R&D Dialogues: Election Security with Special Guest Cynthia McFadden

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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CPF Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy talk to journalist Cynthia McFadden about the presidential election with a focus on election security and voting mechanisms. McFadden is a broadcast journalist who is the Senior Legal and Investigative Correspondent for NBC News. She was an anchor and correspondent for ABC News, who co-anchored Nightline and occasionally appeared on ABC News special Primetime.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.2	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.1	each other and we respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:31.2	Welcome to election R&D. I'm here with, I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornsife. I'm here with, I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornsyth.
0:40.8	I'm here with Mike Murphy, our co-director, and I want to thank our partners at the Rancho Mirage Writers' Festival and Jamie Cabler.
0:49.9	We're here to talk about an issue that really presses on the minds of a lot of people right now
0:56.7	and that may be critical to the outcome of the election.
1:00.1	And we're very fortunate to have with us Cynthia McFadden.
1:04.0	She's the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News.
1:08.5	She was formerly an anchor and correspondent at ABC and co-anchored Nightline.
1:13.8	And this year, Cynthia, you won both an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award. So congratulations
1:19.7	and thanks for being here. Thank you. And most importantly, the mother of a USC student. So there
1:25.5	you go. There you go. Fight on. So I think I'm going to start
1:30.3	off of the kind of general question. Can voters have confidence in this election? Gosh,
1:35.3	that's a big question and the ultimate one. I think it's a sense that they can depend on the
1:41.8	yes. Yes. I think the first answer is yes. And let me explain the yes part and then
1:48.4	let me explain my concern. The yes is this. There is no evidence of significant voter fraud
1:54.5	in the history of voting in America as the Brennan Center, which studies such things and is a
2:00.1	nonpartisan operator out of NYU,
2:03.3	says, an American is more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit voter fraud.
2:09.3	So on that sense, yes.
2:11.0	And do I think that absentee ballots, based on the evidence of past elections are going to be fairly administered.
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