A recent survey from the Pew Research Center found that more than 40% of Trump supporters

don't believe next week's election will be run well, despite efforts by lawmakers and election

officials to address their concerns since 2020. Judy Woodruff explores what the gap in

election trust may mean part of her series, America at a crossroads.

As Americans line up to vote early in person, drop off their ballots, or make plans for election day,

many officials are bracing for an onslaught of conspiracy theories, protests, legal challenges, and even violence.

My concerns are not with the administration of the process.

I'm very competent in that process.

But I am concerned and hopeful that our country will accept whatever the outcome of this election is.

But we know that it's not easy, because we know that unfortunately,

people have been fed lies about our election system now for literally four years.

There have always been a few doubters.

There have always been conspiracy theorists who worried about whether someone was rigging the count.

Barton Gelman is a senior advisor at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank at New York University,

where he's been studying how to protect democratic norms and institutions. Those were never very large numbers, in part because their political leaders did not validate

those false concerns. That's changed, and it's had corrosive effects on confidence in the electorate.

Gellman is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who in the November 2020 issue of the Atlantic

magazine warned that then-President Trump could attempt to subvert the election results to hold

on to power.

This is a fraud.

On election night in 2020, Trump claimed victory well before counting it ended.

We were getting ready to win this election.

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