Election Integrity Matters!

Date: April 20, 2026
Host: Jim Schneider
Guest: Ken Cuccinelli
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Ken Cuccinelli is the national chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative. He previously was the acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and then as the acting deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. He was a leading spokesman for the administration on immigration, election security and homeland security issues. He served in state government in the Virginia Senate from 2002-2010 and as Virginia’s attorney general from 2010-2014.

Yesterday morning, Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, said that federal officials discovered tens of thousands of dead people and non-citizens on voter rolls. At the present time, multiple states are being sued by the Trump administration for failing to turn over voter roles to the Department of Justice which is determined to ensure compliance with the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act and other laws. Out of 60 million records, they’ve found at least 350,000 dead people and approximately 25,000 people with no citizenship records.

Ken believes that election transparency is the foundation of voter confidence. So review this edition of Crosstalk and find out how Ken views the election landscape and what must be done to protect such transparency and confidence. For example:

Most people don’t call local voting officials when they move. So as people relocate, do such rolls get automatically “cleaned” or not?

Why has there been such a radical turn to the “left” in Virginia? Is there an effort in play in order to gain four more House seats for Democrats? How significant is this to the rest of America?
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed into law a measure that joins the state to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Is this an effort to undermine the electoral college?