He believes Donald Trump would attempt to overturn the election results if he thought he could succeed.

“I bring it up because I'm comfortable saying that the president would like to have a coup if he could he would like to be able to steal this election to reverse the results through lawsuits or faithful selectors or acolyte assembly persons in wisconsin or michigan or judges if he could”

Democratic governors should clearly and forcefully communicate that the federal government is prohibited by law from interfering with state-run elections.

“I would like Democratic governors to go out there and say like it is illegal and unconstitutional for the federal government to deploy any kind of federal agents or troops around polling place.”

Maine will protect its voters from any federal intimidation or interference at the polls.

“As governor of this state, I will stand firm and as a state that has repeatedly large turnout, a large turnout of voters every election year, one of the highest turns turnouts in the country. We will protect every individual's right to vote this November”

Recent changes in Georgia election law, including the removal of exterior dropboxes and new voter ID requirements for mail-in ballots, have strengthened the system.

“there are no more exterior dropboxes in Georgia there are still dropboxes on the interior of buildings but what we what we saw in our research was that the exploitation occurred on those drop boxes on the outside the ballot stuffing and so forth”

Raw intelligence data cannot be used as proof of election interference because it requires analysis by trained experts to determine its materiality.

“The reason why we have intelligence agencies, the reason why we have intelligence experts that are trained to review, to analyze, to determine whether something is important versus not important, material to our national security versus not material to our national security is because you can't just”

The current efforts to restrict mail-in voting are part of a broader strategy by the administration to undermine the fairness of the midterm elections.

“You can literally make a list of all the things the Trump administration is attempting to do to undermine the midterm elections and it feels like we just uh you know moonwalking right into it like it's nothing.”

The public should be prepared for the reality that accurate election results may take a long time to count and this delay is not necessarily an indication of fraud.

“we're just gonna have to start internalizing the fact that it could take a while and not think that this is fraudulent or that there's something majorly wrong and treat it as an annoyance that necessitated by the fat male voting is important”

The recent Twitter hack is a major security wake-up call that suggests no system is completely immune to manipulation through social engineering.

“the counter that last night is definitely a wake-up call I think to to show that not matter what they put in place there's always a way in especially if it's through social engineering”