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DAVE DAVIES, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. The midterm election is less than two weeks away. And for months, President Donald Trump has been warning that American voting systems are not to be trusted, including in his July primetime address to the nation.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls. And yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship and tens of millions of ballots flowing aimlessly through the mail.

DAVIES: Trump has claimed that mail-in ballots may be forged, that voting machines can be hacked and that corrupt Democrats will conspire to steal votes, as he claims they did in his 2020 loss to Joe Biden. He's tried to affect the election by imposing new restrictions on registration and voting, requiring the Post Office to screen who can receive mail-in ballots and demanding that states purge thousands of people from voter rolls.…