HARTFORD (AP) — Secretary of the State Denise Merrill said Friday if President Donald Trump insists on launching an investigation into unsubstantiated voter fraud allegations, he won't find any problems in Connecticut.

The Democrat said her office will cooperate with any federal probe, but insisted there "just is no reason for it."

"I think the worse thing about all this is the shaking of the faith of the people in the election process," said Merrill, who is president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. "It's all too easy these days to imagine a conspiracy when there is none and people are all too ready to believe it, sadly."

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has said Trump will sign an executive action to commission an investigation into alleged voter fraud. The Republican president has claimed that at least 3 million people voted illegally in the election, denying him a popular vote majority. There is no evidence to support this claim.

The president tweeted Friday that he was looking forward to the results of a study into voter fraud. He cited a claim by Gregg Phillips, who says he created VoteStand, a mobile app to report election fraud. Trump tweeted, "Look forward to seeing final results of VoteStand. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal. We must do better!"

Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said both his Democratic and Republican colleagues agree "these claims of widespread voter fraud are simply fiction" and an investigation is unwarranted.

"There may be a small minority of the country which believes them," he said. "Unfortunately the President of the United States seems to be in that very minuscule minority."

Melissa Russell, president of the Registrars of Voters Association of Connecticut, said the state is doing a "really great job" at running elections because the system is so localized.

"Every town is working these elections, working these (voter) lists," she said. "Our lists are pretty tight. Are they 100 percent, 100 percent of the time? No, because people move faster than we do sometimes. But our lists are pretty good and we feel very confident that voter fraud is not a widespread issue in Connecticut."