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He has been intently focused on this and is expected to address the nation on it.<\/strong><\/p>

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Ballots from the 2020 election are taken by the FBI earlier this year in Georgia, shocking election experts. President Donald Trump is expected to talk about the 2020 election on Thursday. (Mike Stewart\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Less than four months before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump is addressing the nation Thursday night. He\u2019s expected<\/a> to talk about his 2020 loss and false claims of voter fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really big news,\u201d Trump said earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Election experts are skeptical Trump will announce anything earth-shattering. His administration has spent the past year and a half trying to find widespread evidence of voter fraud from an election held six years ago. To date, it has yet to publicly share anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know what happened with the 2020 election,\u201d David Becker, a former Justice Department voting rights attorney and head of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research, said in a briefing with reporters this week. \u201cWe know that it was the most reviewed election in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a concern among some election experts and Democrats that Trump could be laying the groundwork to declare fraud in November\u2019s midterm elections if Republicans lose control of Congress or other big races.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

His administration has demanded sensitive voter data from all 50 states<\/b>: The data could include personal information such as partial Social Security numbers or your mother\u2019s maiden name. Some Republican-led states have turned it over voluntarily; other states have ignored the requests or fought the Justice Department in court and won.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe motive for the request for voter data in the first place was always suspect,\u201d Arizona Secretary of State Adrien Fontes (D) said in an interview this spring after his state won a lawsuit on the issue. \u201cAnd we fought that tooth and nail and the way the DOJ was looking to potentially abuse or exploit voter information.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has targeted 2020 ballots in some states Trump lost<\/b>: Earlier this year, the FBI shocked election experts when it seized 2020 election ballots from Georgia\u2019s most populous (and most Democratic) county. The FBI has also tried to get ballots in Arizona and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have never seen the federal government step in and seize voting materials like this, anytime that I can remember,\u201d said Tammy Patrick, a former election official in Arizona now with the nonpartisan Election Center.<\/p>\n

States don\u2019t normally hold on to ballots from past elections, but Georgia was required to after all the lawsuits from Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know where they are now,\u201d Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts said after the FBI took the ballots. \u201cI don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing with them. Are they opening the boxes? Are they stuffing other ballots into there? I have no clue.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has been looking at voting machines in Puerto Rico: <\/b>Trump\u2019s focus on voting machines comes from more unproven conspiracy theories about why he lost in 2020.<\/p>

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Election experts stress that voting machines are a safe way to tabulate votes and are protected by myriad safety nets: They aren\u2019t connected to the internet, their access is closely guarded, they are tested before and after elections, and in most states there is a paper ballot record to compare against.<\/p>\n

Becker says that examination of voting machines in Puerto Rico underscores how the administration is grasping at straws to try to find evidence of fraud. \u201cIf you\u2019re trying to prove you were hacked in the last election, Puerto Rico is not your Plan A,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t even have a vote for president.\u201d<\/p>\n

The administration has been looking into whether there was foreign interference in 2020: <\/b>Other countries meddling in U.S. elections isn\u2019t new. U.S. intelligence agencies have said<\/a> that Russian and Iranian spies tried to influence Americans to vote a certain way in the 2020 election. They also determined Russia tried to influence Americans with disinformation and interfere with the vote in 2016, which Trump won.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post reports<\/a> that in his address, Trump is expected to claim that China or other nations accessed U.S. voter data. But beyond the privacy issues this raises, it\u2019s not clear how that would change the outcome of an election, Becker said. \u201cI could have my kid\u2019s class list,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I can\u2019t change my kid\u2019s grades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since he got back into office, Trump has suggested banning mail voting, taking over voting in certain states, sending troops to the polls and even letting him count the votes \u2014 actions that would seem clearly unconstitutional. Presidents don\u2019t have the authority to change elections, much less run them, and courts have struck down his attempts to do so.<\/p>\n

The Constitution says states run their own elections, while Congress can dictate the time, place and manner. (Trump is trying to get Congress to pass voting restrictions for November\u2019s elections but hasn\u2019t been able to get the votes.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are good reasons why we don\u2019t have a single person, a president, in charge of elections,\u201d Wendy Weiser with the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on democracy issues, told me last summer when Trump first suggested taking control of elections.<\/p>\n

Amid all this, election experts say states are doing an excellent job running free and fair elections and hope that Americans will show up in high numbers in November to vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be very proud we have gone 250 years and we are still having elections,\u201d said Fontes, the Arizona secretary of state. He pointed out that elections have been held successfully through the Civil War, World War II, the 1918 flu pandemic and the coronavirus pandemic, as well as after an insurrection at the Capitol and countless natural disasters including fires in Hawaii and flooding in North Carolina. \u201cWe are an ornery bunch of Americans, and we are not going to let politicians in D.C. disrupt our way of expressing ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amber Phillips<\/i><\/a> writes <\/i>The 5-Minute Fix newsletter<\/i><\/a>, a quick analysis of the day\u2019s biggest political news. <\/i>Send her an email here<\/i><\/a>, or <\/i>ask a question<\/i><\/a> that could be featured in an upcoming newsletter.<\/i><\/p>

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