US seeks to reassure voters that presidential election will be safe

washington — Top U.S. election security officials are asking American voters to tune out the noise and reject what they describe as unfounded claims that the coming presidential election will be rigged.  Instead, in the first of a series of election security briefings planned in the run-up to November's election, they say U.S. voters should have confidence that when they go to the polls their votes will be counted accurately.  "Throughout the next few months, you are going to hear a lot of different things from different sources.