Brennan Center for Justice
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Oct 30, 2026
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
The same technology that can help us find answers to almost anything can also create convincing evidence that something happened that actually didn't.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
So a team of election researchers over at the Brennan Center in New York decided to put AI through its paces.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
They asked the chatbots to sort fact from fiction.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
Then they asked them to help create the fiction.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
I'm Karen Duffin.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
AI has been keeping Larry Norden up at night for years now.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
Larry is the vice president at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School.
Larry NordenGUEST
I lead a team that focuses on free and fair elections, election administration, election security, and how all of that intersects with technology more generally.
John DonvanHOST
I want to welcome Maya Kornberg.
John DonvanHOST
She's a senior research fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice.
John DonvanHOST
There, she focuses on election and legislative reform.
John DonvanHOST
On the other side of the argument, we have S.J. Olshansky.
Jamelle BouieHOST
I'll give you a little information here.
Jamelle BouieHOST
In 2016, the Brennan Center for Justice did a study of 42 jurisdictions totaling 23.5 million votes.
Jamelle BouieHOST
What they found was an estimated 30 instances of non-citizen voting, equivalent to 0.0001% of all votes cast.
Jamelle BouieHOST
Effectively, none at all.
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It took years and years of building trust, of talking to election officials, of hiring people with elections experience who could be validators for the work that CISA wanted to do.
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before they finally built strong working relationships, said Derek Tisler, who specializes in election security as counsel for the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan institute based out of New York University School of Law.
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Under Director Chris Krebs, CISA hosted penetration testing, in which its agents would try to hack into a state system to locate weaknesses that could then be patched, along with tabletop exercises simulating a series of potential catastrophes around elections.
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CISA also offered regular secret-level briefings to secretaries of state to share federal intelligence.
Barbara Williams-SkinnerGUEST
If people don't participate, it's weak for everybody.
Barbara Williams-SkinnerGUEST
You know, in 2024, the Pew, it wasn't Pew, I think it was the Brennan Center for Justice said 89 to 90 million Americans did not even bother to vote, though they were eligible.
Barbara Williams-SkinnerGUEST
The presidency was only won by slightly over, what, seven million.
Barbara Williams-SkinnerGUEST
So that's a lot of people who have lost faith in our democracy.
8 MINS LATER
Barbara Williams-SkinnerGUEST
Yeah, Jim, you asked about the process in between after the election until the certification of a new Congress.
Barbara Williams-SkinnerGUEST
There are many threats that people are concerned about right now.
Barbara Williams-SkinnerGUEST
We're talking to the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Maya Wiley and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and others, the Brennan Center for Justice, who have heard everything from the seizing of the ballots all the way to declaring the Insurrection Act or martial law.
Barbara Williams-SkinnerGUEST
or having federal troops, which is against the federal law, at the polling sites.
Greg PalastGUEST
It was the two black men in the audience who were shunted to provisional ballots.
Greg PalastGUEST
And according to the Brennan Center and others who've studied it, overwhelmingly provisional ballots, that is ballots you fill out but may not be counted, overwhelmingly are given to voters of color, especially young black men.
Greg PalastGUEST
Overwhelmingly.
Greg PalastGUEST
And the result is that because Trump was able to disqualify 436,000 ballots, by the way, you never hear that except on this program, this official government figure, That half a million ballots was enough to elect Donald Trump in 2024.
Don SwansNARRATOR
Today, when the founding fathers' names are recounted, Wilson's is rarely among them.
Don SwansNARRATOR
that much of the 19th century, his life, to the degree it was remembered of all, was still defined by the financial calamity that marked its end, writes Jesse Wegman, senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Don SwansNARRATOR
In The Lost Founder, James Wilson, The Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution, Mr. Wegman gives Wilson enormous credit for trying to make the Constitution as democratic as possible and to make Americans think of themselves as one, united, we the people.
Don SwansNARRATOR
He was an American in principle, if not by birth.
Don SwansNARRATOR
Today, when the founding fathers' names are recounted, Wilson's is rarely among them.
Don SwansNARRATOR
that much of the 19th century, his life, to the degree it was remembered of all, was still defined by the financial calamity that marked its end, writes Jesse Wegman, senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Don SwansNARRATOR
In The Lost Founder, James Wilson, The Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution, Mr. Wegman gives Wilson enormous credit for trying to make the Constitution as democratic as possible and to make Americans think of themselves as one, united, we the people.
Don SwansNARRATOR
He was an American in principle, if not by birth.
Alicia MenendezHOST
But he was just handed another court loss in that case.
Alicia MenendezHOST
Let's discuss with MSNL legal analyst and former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance, president of the Brennan Center for Justice, former Clinton speechwriter Michael Waldman.
Alicia MenendezHOST
Jamie Harrison is still with us.
Alicia MenendezHOST
Joyce, starting with this alleged Alaska scheme.
Mike RobinsonHOST
Good luck fooling your uncle with a polling line that looks like a Saturday morning cartoon.
Mike RobinsonHOST
In fairness, a Brennan Center report on October 22 found ChatGPT was the only one of six popular AI tools to make real progress against election disinformation since May.
Mike RobinsonHOST
And earlier this month, OpenAI flagged two fake news operations, one from Russia and one from Iran, using its models.
Mike RobinsonHOST
But let's be clear-eyed about what a war room covers.
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