Trevor Potter

Our next episode will be led by my colleague Sophie Feldman, who heads up our social media at Campaign Legal Center.

She'll be joined by some heavy hitters from Campaign Legal Center, President Trevor Potter and Executive Director Adav Nody, who will bring you fresh analysis and discuss what's ahead.

Until then, thank you for listening and for participating in the world's oldest continuous democracy.

As you know, it remains a work in progress.

Concerns about what Donald Trump will do if and when he loses tomorrow.

And in the post-election period is where we begin the hour with a very special group of our favorite reporters and friends.

Senior White House reporter Von Hilliard is here.

He's outside an event with Georgia Senator John Ossoff in Metro Atlanta.

Why all the noise if what you're saying is true?

Well, I think unfortunately the president and his enablers have a vested interest in trying to sow doubt in our elections, partly to try to intimidate people from exercising their right to vote, partly as a way to try to use it as an excuse to to dispute elections that they, results that they don't like.

And so what the public should know is that this is all, that that's exactly what it is, is it's noise and it's an attempt to intimidate and people, nobody should let that turn them around.

And to paraphrase the old civil rights song, from the ballot box, they should exercise their freedom to vote.

So let me get to an issue that I'm confused about because it runs counter basically to what you're saying.

And it's something that the president and the attorney general have said repeatedly.

They have both repeatedly said that there are thousands.

I don't think they ever put an actual number on it, but that there are thousands of non-citizens who are on the voting rolls and who actually go out and vote.

But to your question about the money... apparently the phony Dan Sullivan of Alaska had a single campaign expense, and it was to a law firm in D.C. called Kaplan and Drysdale, and they're known for representing high-profile Democrats.

Senior counsel for that law firm is a guy named Trevor Potter.

He formed the Committee to Modernize Voter Registration, along with our old pal Mark Elias.

Yeah, his fingerprints are all over this as well.

Adam is not alone in blaming the Supreme Court.

Trevor Potter is a Republican and the former head of the Federal Election Commission.

He points out that none of the current Supreme Court justices have ever run for public office, and he says that's part of a bigger problem.

It's been a combination of a Supreme Court which I think increasingly doesn't understand how elections work, uh, and a commission which does not enforce existing laws, and a deadlocked Congress that has been unable to change the laws, uh, and clarify them.

Hunter said the concern centers on advertisements that misrepresent candidates, particularly through fabricated depictions that place a person in situations or actions they never actually engaged in, a capability he described as setting this technology apart from older forms of deception.

Trevor Potter, a former chair of the Federal Election Oversight Body, submitted written testimony before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee arguing that, without adequate safeguards, the technology held the potential to distort factual information and undermine the public's ability to govern itself.

According to data compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures, 31 states have enacted laws addressing the use of deepfakes in political advertising.

Three of those states have moved to outright ban certain deepfake content, while the remaining 28 require that such material carry a disclosure.