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And I'm Todd's Willick. Every week leading up to the election, we've teamed up to bring you our politics series,

if you can keep it.

We focused on the stakes of this election for people, for the country, and for our democracy.

And the election, well, it's here.

Nearly 80 million people have already voted before Election Day on Tuesday.

So as this election season wraps up, we're stepping away from what the Harris and Trump campaigns are doing in the final stretch.

Instead, we're looking at what's happening outside the U.S. that could affect the election.

Let's see what we have here.

The video is alarming.

Ballots being ripped up in Battleground, Pennsylvania.

Except the federal government says it's fake, created by Russia.

That report was from NBC News.

The U.S. government and technology companies like Microsoft report that once again foreign

actors are trying to interfere in the presidential election and in down-ballot races.

That includes hostile countries like Russia and Iran.

Why do countries want to interfere in this election?

What do they hope to gain?

And what do these operations typically look like?

We get into it after the break.

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