ALBAWABA — The U.S. President Donald Trump has released a batch of government documents he claims show weaknesses in the American voting system, reigniting debates over election security and the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
Israel tells US Pentagon it’s keeping its forces inside ‘security zones’ in Gaza, Lebanon, and SyriaThe documents released by the White House include intelligence assessments, FBI records and security studies that discuss cybersecurity threats to electoral infrastructure, probes of voter registration, allegations of foreign meddling and charges of non-citizen voter registrations.
White House said that intelligence reports from 2020 to 2026 have indicated that parts of the U.S. election system, including electronic voting machines, voter registration databases, vote-counting systems and official election websites, are still vulnerable to cyberattacks. The investigations list China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and other danger entities as potential sources of cyber operations targeting U.S. elections.
Among the most serious allegations in the disclosed data is the assertion that China began to acquire around 220 million voter registrations in the United States, beginning in the 2020 election cycle. The documents say the data contained voters’ names, addresses, phone numbers and political affiliations. Former intelligence officials played down the magnitude of the suspected breach, the documents said.
The document package also contains FBI data regarding an inquiry into voter registration in Michigan during the 2020 election. Records show detectives looked into reports that people had submitted fake voter registration papers for gift cards. The White House has maintained the inquiry was slowed during the previous administration and said Trump has authorized current FBI leadership to continue pursuing the case if criminal infractions are found.
Another section references a review based on data from the Department of Homeland Security that states that about 278,000 non-U.S. citizens were registered to vote in federal elections . The White House said the number could be higher as several states did not provide voter registration data with federal officials.
The documents also advocate significant election reforms, such as requiring U.S. citizenship to register to vote, expanding voter ID requirements and increasing cybersecurity defenses for voting systems and voter databases.
But the publication has been criticized by political opponents and election experts who say the documents do not show that the outcome of the 2020 presidential race was altered. They also emphasize that past U.S. intelligence assessments and court rulings found no evidence that foreign meddling changed the outcome of the election, even as they determined that foreign actors attempted to influence the democratic process.
