Thursday’s edition of PBS’s Amanpour and Company went off the rails when guest host Bianna Golodryga welcomed The Atlantic staff writer David Graham to discuss supposed threats to next year’s midterm elections. The duo would muse about everything from Marines seizing ballot boxes to the idea that the elections will be the fake sort that you get in places like Russia, but no evidence was presented to justify any of the fearmongering.
Discussing a recent article Graham wrote, Golodryga gave credence to a wild idea, “You open the piece with a fictional but plausible scenario, and that is Marines seizing voting ballots in Arizona. Just walk us through some other possible scenarios that you envision. And I guess what keeps you up at night is what you haven't thought of yet.”
After recalling the aftermath of the 2020 election, Graham claimed that, “One of the things that I worry about and that voting experts worry about a lot is the presence of potentially, you know, the military or other armed law enforcement on the streets around the election. Obviously, we've seen the National Guard and, in some cases, Marines on the streets, ICE, and other federal law enforcement. And that's a way that can interfere with elections as well. It may drive turnout down. It can create inconveniences. It can intimidate people. So, you know, that's something that election officials are very concerned about and something we haven't seen before.”
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. steve malzberg
