2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN/VOTING: “I made it clear that early on that in attempting to interfere with our election is a violation of our sovereignty. And if it’s done again, which it appears to be being done, there will be a price to pay. There will be a price to pay.
And Putin knows, the reason he doesn’t want me as president, he knows me, and he knows I mean it. I don’t mean war. But they’ll pay a price. They’ll pay a price for it, and it’ll be an economic price, number one.
Number two, one of the things we have to do is make sure that we investigate exactly what involvement there has been in our election and to protect against it.
One of the things we have to do as well is provide the states with the wherewithal to be able to upgrade their list, their machinery, and to make sure their encryption is – deal with notions that can make safe the voting reg – the voting rolls and make it more difficult to have cyber intrusions into anything that’s being done.”
-Joe Biden, “CNN Presidential Town Hall With Joe Biden,” transcripts.cnn.com, Sep. 17, 2020