# Trump warns our elections are vulnerable. What is Indiana doing to secure midterms? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ibj-podcast-with-mason-king-881104/trump-warns-our-elections-are-vulnerable-what-is-indiana-doing-to-secure-midterms Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ibj-podcast-with-mason-king-881104/trump-warns-our-elections-are-vulnerable-what-is-indiana-doing-to-secure-midterms.md Podcast: [The IBJ Podcast with Mason King](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ibj-podcast-with-mason-king-881104) Published: 2026-07-27T01:52:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ANAIA6243546261.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ANAIA6243546261.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ibj-podcast-with-mason-king-881104/episodes/trump-warns-our-elections-are-vulnerable-what-is-indiana-doing-to-secure-midterms Duration seconds: 2971 ## Resource Election Day is scheduled for Nov. 3, so we’re just a bit more than three months away. This is the midterms, so there’s a lot at stake at the federal and state levels, in additional to many referendums for local school districts. On July 16, President Trump delivered a 26-minute prime-time address about election security, warning us that our elections are vulnerable to fraud and need immediate attention. Among his claims, Trump said China was able to acquire 220 million U.S. voter files in 2020 and wants to exploit that data. He also said a Department of Homeland Security investigation found that 278,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in federal elections.   Regular listeners of the IBJ Podcast know we already had scheduled a return visit with Chetrice Romero, senior cybersecurity adviser for law firm Ice Miller, to talk specifically about election security, so the president’s address gave us even more grist for the mill. Romero has worked extensively with the state and federal government on election security and is currently consulting with state and county officials on November’s election. In this week’s edition of IBJ Podcast, she starts off by putting Trump’s comments in context and gauging the threat level of his claims. She then goes in great detail explaining the many steps that local and state officials are taking in Indiana to secure the election. And she weighs in on proposals to go back to an all-paper voting system. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ibj-podcast-with-mason-king-881104/episodes/trump-warns-our-elections-are-vulnerable-what-is-indiana-doing-to-secure-midterms/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ibj-podcast-with-mason-king-881104/trump-warns-our-elections-are-vulnerable-what-is-indiana-doing-to-secure-midterms.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.