Friday, March 20, 2026
LWV-Downeast
Maine has some of the best-run, highest-turnout elections in the country. We want to hold onto that, so we’re taking election threats seriously. We’ll talk about how elections work now and why we should be confident in our elections. But we’ll also talk about what can go wrong and how we can prepare.
Special guests:
- Shenna Bellows, Maine Secretary of State
- Patti DuBois, City Clerk, Waterville, Maine
- Archon Fung, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
Learn more about this topic here:
- President Trump is trying to make it harder to vote. Here's why that matters | NPR, March 2026
- Preparing for the Election Meltdown . . . Or not | Terms of Engagement, Ash Center, February 2026
- This is Not a Drill | The New York Times, David French, February 2026
- Dem AGs plot to thwart Trump election interference | POLITICO, February 2026
- How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US | The Conversation, Shelley Inglis, February 2026
- Trump regrets not calling up troops after the 2020 election. What stops him in 2026? | Vote Beat,January 2026
- The Atlantic’s December Cover: David Graham and J. Michael Luttig on ‘The Coming Election Mayhem,’ December 2025
- Making Civil Society Great Again to Protect the 2026 Elections | Democracy Project, Rick Hasen, November 2025
- Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way | The Atlantic, October 2025
- The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election | Brennan Center for Justice, August 2025
- Election Interference in An Age of AI-Enabled Cyberattacks and Information Manipulation Campaigns | Stanford International Policy Review, January 2025
Tune into the broadcast at 4:00 p.m., Friday, March 20, on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, streaming at weru.org. If you miss the broadcast, check back here for the audio archive. Subscribe to our podcast: iTunes | Spotify | Android.



