denise merrill's president of the national association of secretaries of state. she joins us from hartford. jeff mason is the white house reporter for reuters. anna palmer is the co-author of the popular playbook pick sheets. repeatedlyrump has said that the system is rigged. calling into question the integrity of our elections in general. do you believe that he is sewing jeanette concerns about whether to havetions are going the right results at the end of the day? >> thank you. it is nice to be here. i would have to say about the question of rigging the election that even the question is is noctive. there evidence that there is a massive conspiracy to overturn or even change u.s. election results. the results of this claim has in thessive distrust system in connecticut and elsewhere i am having reports of hundreds of people calling in and saying how are you counting my vote, are there illegal aliens voting? the problem is that the claim is vague. when you say rigged the election, i'm not sure what he meant but it plays into the fear that people have that their

joins us, and denise merrill. she joins us from hartford. house reporter for voters and co-author for popular playbook at politico. anna, you have the first question. trump hasld repeatedly on the campaign trail said the system's rate. calling into question the integrity of our election in general. do you believe he is showing a legitimate concern about whether or not -- what happens to the result at the end of the day. >> nice to be here. evenld like to say that the question is destructive, about rigging. there is no evidence there is a massive conspiracy to overturn or even change u.s. relation -- election results. i think the result of the claim has been massive distrust in the andem in connecticut elsewhere. reports of hundreds of people calling in to say, how are you counting my vote, are there illegal aliens voting, you know, the problem is the claim is vague. when you say rigged the election, i am not even sure what he meant, but it plays into fears people have that their vote will not be counted. mind, the claim alone is destructive

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we will hear from national association of secretaries of state president denise merrill and thomas hicksection assistance commission. here is a preview of the interview. >> rigging the election is something that a lot of folks have talked about in terms of people casting votes who should not be casting votes, or suppressing the vote by preventing other people to cast their ballots. one of the things i want to ensure with this is that it's the way the scenarios are being described, you would need an army of tens of thousands if not millions of people to pull off the reading of the election the way that things are being described. the machines are not hooked up to the internet. they are secure by election officials and poll workers. eac has guidelines on securing voting equipment. we want to ensure that if you have any sort of suspicion that those things are taking place, you need to report those. it is still a felony to commit voter fraud. it is still a felony to suppress people's votes. that isto ensure -- and not something the eac would do but something that local law enforcement would