General (ret.) Joseph Votel joined Michel Martin of NPR’s Morning Edition to discuss key takeaways from the two tabletop exercises CERL conducted to assess readiness for scenarios involving allegations of voter fraud that delay certification of election results, in one instance, and the deployment of troops to aid local law enforcement in quelling protests, in a second. The ubiquity of disinformation has the potential to quickly shape perspectives around the election and quicken the move toward civil unrest, General Votel explains.

General Joseph L. Votel, U.S. Army (Ret.), is the former Commander of the U.S. Central Command. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security at the Middle East Institute and a member of the CERL Executive Board. Read his bio here.

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