New report shows misinformation is a threat to election security
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. Postal Service has proposed new rules that would require states to hand over data on voters who receive mail-in ballots for federal elections. |
| 0:09.0 | It comes after President Trump signed an executive order earlier this year, tightening mail-in voting rules with a stated goal of making elections more secure. |
| 0:17.6 | But a report out today says the most likely threats to election security this November |
| 0:21.9 | come from other sources. Our Liz Landers recently sat down with one of the authors of that report. |
| 0:28.5 | Members of the Trump administration are ramping up warnings about election security as the midterms |
| 0:33.2 | draw closer, citing conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines, voter fraud, and more. |
| 0:39.2 | The president himself repeated those claims from the Oval Office last month, urging Congress |
| 0:43.9 | to pass legislation he says will secure elections. |
| 0:47.8 | I think the elections are so rigged and we have to do something about it and we're going to do |
| 0:52.1 | something about it, but we cannot continue to have, and frankly, the Senate and the House, |
| 0:57.3 | they ought to get together and they ought to pass the Save America Act so that you have voter ID. |
| 1:02.3 | And it's so important you have proof of citizenship, little thing like proof of citizenship, |
| 1:08.1 | and also mail-in voting, which is so crooked. |
| 1:10.9 | A new report first shared with PBS News by the cybersecurity company Checkpoint Software Technologies |
| 1:16.1 | outlines what should and should not be a concern for voters going into the midterms. |
| 1:21.0 | It also analyzes threats from foreign actors, artificial intelligence, vulnerabilities for |
| 1:26.1 | voting machines, and more. |
| 1:28.1 | Joining me now to discuss that report is Aaron Rose, a security expert with Checkpoint Software. |
| 1:33.2 | Aaron, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:34.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:36.1 | PBS News had a poll from March that found that 85% of registered voters say it's likely that political content generated by AI will spread misinformation |
| 1:46.1 | related to these upcoming November elections. How is artificial intelligence accelerating |
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