Checks and Balance: Voter confidence - a podcast by The Economist

November’s electionthreatens to be ugly.President Trump’s supporters are clashing with Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland. Covid-19 complicates voting. The result may not be clear on election night. Many Americans worry the election could herald violent discord and aconstitutional crisisrather than a smooth exercise of democracy. Should they be concerned?

We speak to Myrna Perez of the Brennan Center for Justice and Professor Kathleen Hale, who runs the graduate programme in election administration at Auburn University. 

 

John Prideaux,The Economist's US editor, hosts with Jon Fasman, Washington correspondent, and Idrees Kahloon, US policy correspondent.

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