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Owen Bennett-Jones explores the threats facing America鈥檚 electoral system - from Russian interference to voter suppression and from cyber-attacks to conspiracy theories. How vulnerable is American democracy? And can US citizens still trust the system to deliver a fair result?

As the Republican and Democratic parties prepare for November鈥檚 mid-terms, the last major polling day before the 2024 Presidential election, we hear what is being done to counter these threats. And with Donald Trump's Stop the Steal campaign bringing doubts about the electoral system into the political mainstream, is an erosion of faith in democracy now the greatest threat of all?

In Episode Two, an election analyst spots an impossible result at a polling station in Memphis, Tennessee. Owen examines whether America鈥檚 reliance on electronic voting machines has made preventing and detecting fraud more difficult and we hear how the Stop the Steal movement has exploited fears of electoral fraud.

Presenter: Owen Bennett-Jones
Producer: Leo Hornak
A Novel production for 麻豆约拍 Radio 4