Al Schmidt
Secretary of the Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaWikipedia
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Oct 15, 2026
Scott PreslerGUEST
We exposed the non-juror rolls.
Scott PreslerGUEST
We exposed non-citizens on our voter rolls, and I do expect, uh, an apology from Secretary Al Schmidt in, uh, in the Secretary of State's office because we have found non-jurors that have not only been voting, but, uh, are, are registered to vote in our elections, and we were the ones that exposed and identified those non-citizens that are stealing votes from union workers, women, minority, uh, minorities, et cetera.
Scott PreslerGUEST
And, uh, and we're gonna continue this work even after the 2026 election going into 2028.
Dom GiordanoHOST
I see that DOJ just the other day...
Scott PreslerGUEST
And we're going to make sure that the voter rolls continue to be cleaned of ineligible, unlawful non-citizens, and I can't say that more than enough.
Dom GiordanoHOST
Well, I will, uh, play this.
Dom GiordanoHOST
I think Al Schmidt will come on again, Scott, and this time rather than saying what you said, I'm gonna play it.
Dom GiordanoHOST
He won't come on with you.
Michael WaldmanHOST
He's a Democrat.
Michael WaldmanHOST
Al Schmidt is a Republican.
Michael WaldmanHOST
He is the secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and he echoed this confidence in their ability to administer the election as well, but he also noted, "No state does what the federal government has the capability of doing when it comes to monitoring, collecting information, and intelligence of adversarial bad faith foreign actors." We're worried about those foreign actors and malevolent domestic actors, too.
Michael WaldmanHOST
So he didn't say that, I said that.
Linda KearnsGUEST
Have the legislature fix it.
Linda KearnsGUEST
If you approach Al Schmidt, the secretary of state, that's it.
Linda KearnsGUEST
We'll have the legislature fix it.
Linda KearnsGUEST
And then you approach the legislature.
Linda KearnsGUEST
So, um, um, uh, this, um, the name of the guy who wrote the article is Daniel Pearson.
Linda KearnsGUEST
Um, And he wrote he was writing an article because you have some people out there saying there's so many people on the voter rolls, like, excuse me, so many non-citizens.
Linda KearnsGUEST
And then you have people like Al Schmidt and Josh Shapiro saying, you know, yes.
Linda KearnsGUEST
So there's no problem.
Garrett HaakeCORRESPONDENT
Obviously, it's one of the president's favorite topics.
Garrett HaakeCORRESPONDENT
We spoke to a, a, a Republican Secretary of the Commonwealth, Al Schmidt of Pennsylvania, about not just the actual threats to the physical infrastructure of our elections, but his concerns that a lack of trust in those elections, uh, perpetrated by the president and his allies could be a threat in and of itself.
Garrett HaakeCORRESPONDENT
Listen to part of our conversation with Al Schmidt of Pennsylvania.
Garrett HaakeCORRESPONDENT
And when the president talks about this big kind of conspiratorial large scale fraud, I mean, you testified in the January 6th committee that that wasn't the case in 2020.
Garrett HaakeCORRESPONDENT
There's el...
Seth BluesteinGUEST
And while I was at Penn, I worked on a number of political campaigns and got involved in local Republican politics in Philadelphia, which is an interesting choice, uh, given the dynamics of the registration numbers.
Seth BluesteinGUEST
Uh, and I worked on the campaign for Al Schmidt, who you referenced as a former guest of yours on the podcast, and, uh, he was running for city commissioner.
Seth BluesteinGUEST
In Philadelphia, we have a bipartisan board of elections.
Seth BluesteinGUEST
Uh, it is two Democrats and one Republican.
10 MINS LATER
Eric FeyHOST
[gentle music] Hello, I'm Eric Fey, Director of Elections in St. Louis County, Missouri, and you're listening to High Turnout Wide Margins, a podcast where we explore local election administration.
Brianna LennonHOST
What's some, um...
Brianna LennonHOST
Because you, as you said, you followed in the footsteps of, uh, Al Schmidt, who's now serving, you know, uh, in a, in a higher role in elections.
Brianna LennonHOST
What's some advice that maybe, maybe not necessarily from him, but, uh, in shouldering these responses, in being thoughtful about how to address these things that you've gotten that you think is, uh, something that other election administrators should hear?