Benjamin Hovland, who was appointed U.S. Election Assistance Commission chairman by President Donald Trump in 2019, told PBS NewsHour's Daniel Bush that the president’s attacks on mail-in voting are “unfortunate." “But any kind of grand conspiracy, you know, that just isn't something that we've seen in elections and nothing that I would expect," he said. Hovland spoke with Bush ahead of the third night of the Republican National Convention.

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