Trump falsely alleges voting machines are "vulnerable" and "easily compromised"
Summary
President Donald Trump claimed in a speech that U.S. voting machines are vulnerable to hacking, citing declassified intelligence. Experts and official reports say U.S. voting systems are well protected, rarely connected to the internet, and backed up by paper ballots that can be checked by hand.Key Facts
- President Trump said voting machines and ballot-counting systems are "extremely exposed to attack" and easy to compromise.
- The intelligence he cited involved a company called Smartmatic, which is mostly not used in the U.S. except in Los Angeles County.
- Smartmatic stopped working in Venezuela in 2017 after reporting false turnout numbers by the government there.
- U.S. voting machines are not connected to the internet and are closely guarded and tested before and after elections.
- Paper ballots or receipts back up almost all U.S. voting machines, allowing audits and hand recounts.
- In Georgia’s 2020 election, ballots were counted three times, all confirming Joe Biden’s win over President Trump.
- A 2020 National Intelligence Council memo said foreign countries have the ability to attack election infrastructure but found it would be difficult to change outcomes on a large scale.
- Intelligence reports from 2021 said no foreign group tried to alter the technical voting process in the 2020 U.S. election.
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