Four days after President Donald Trump declared that his administration uncovered "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," dozens of state election officials from across the country gathered in Boston.
But they weren't there for an emergency summit to tackle the supposed crisis, even though the midterm elections are only 15 weeks away.
Instead, these election officials from 37 states met for a long-scheduled professional conference that struck a strikingly business-as-usual tone. In fact, Trump and his primetime address hardly came up.
In interviews with CNN, more than a dozen election officials from both parties said Trump's address surfaced little new in terms of evidence. Several GOP officials even scoffed at his presentation, pointing to the data that the administration released to try to bolster its case that there are massive numbers of non-citizens voting in US elections.
Matt Crane, a Republican who runs the Colorado County Clerks ***** ociation, said his text chat with a bipartisan group of colleagues was filled with "a lot of laughing emojis, and like, 'you got to be kidding me?' that this was all it was."

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