Evidence of US Election Interference, Part 1 of 3

Thursday night, July 16th at 9pm EST, President Trump gave a speech on election integrity. After he got through a number of soundbites selling various Trump branded government products, he said that the WhiteHouse.gov1 site featured new pages of documentation of election interference, “Go check it out!”

The rest of the speech was general propaganda about evidence that China had interfered with US elections and so on. The goal was clear: sow distrust in the current election process so that when mid-term elections do not go his way, he can claim election interference. There are other possible outcomes the administration is hoping for, including keeping people too scared or confused to vote in November. Either way, they’re preempting their denials of the election results.

So the topic of election interference is trending again, which seems like as good a time as ever to provide sources for those who have been working diligently for years now to find evidence of such interference.

The kicker, however, is that the evidence and documentation that the President was pushing people to review in support of his claims of election interference by China actually pointed to more evidence that Russia actually was involved with election interference in support of Trump and against Biden.

And some believe that the President bringing the topic of election interference to the forefront of political discourse will not go as he intends.

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The WhiteHouse.gov Election Integrity Documents

On the Election Integrity site, there are four divided sections, “Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting and Ballot-Counting Systems”, “China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data”, “Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation”, and “Noncitizens on State Voter Rolls”.

Each site links to a zipped file, each holding from 2 to 25 PDFs, sometimes heavily redacted so that it’s unclear what the real message of the document was.

This document can’t be credibly used to verify any information, for example.

After many reviewed the documents in each section of the site, many were left with more questions, than anything, as not much clear evidence of vote swapping or direct effects on ballot counting were provided.

“Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting and Ballot-Counting Systems”

This idea is not new. The White House site states that their findings span “from January 2020 to June 2026”, however in Part 2 of this series, we cite an article that notes that Georgia’s electronic voting systems have had notable security vulnerabilities going back as far as 2004.2 Maybe there’s a reason Trump and this administration don’t want to look back earlier than 2020, though.

This zipped file contains eight PDFs.

One of the files is an intelligence report on Venezuela’s electronic voting manipulation capabilities.

Screenshot from the filed named “CIA Note – Venezuela Machines Intel Memo_29JUNE2026_DECLASS_REDACTED.pdf”

The CIA document states that US intelligence was concerned about Venezuela’s ability to manipulate electronic voting, and thus forced the company involved to divest its US operations, but the document goes on to say that none of the findings “definitively confirm that large-scale electronic fraud was successfully executed in specific Venezuelan elections, with CIA’s baseline assessments maintaining that other factors better explained electoral outcomes.”

Most of the documents in this zipped file were also duplicated in the China file, so we’ll address them there, but this shows a strong desire to put the blame on China, as Trump expressed in his speech.

We’ll be talking more about electronic voting system vulnerabilities in Part 2, so make sure you subscribe.

“China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data”

There are 25 PDFs in this zipped file, making it clearly the topic of most concern to the White House, evidenced by how much Trump talked about it in his July 16 speech.

Within these files is a statement by the “Government Transparency Task Force” dated 13 July 2026 that states that, “voter registration rolls from at least 18 states (not all identified by name) have been compromised by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).”. There is no stated time frame, making this document fairly useless.

One of the major claims that China meddled in the election focuses on findings that China accessed voter files, however state voter registration files are mostly publicly available, with most states having no restrictions on who can buy them and some states providing them for free. So this is not a surprising revelation, nor does it directly correlate to any evidence of election interference.

One of the documents titled “NICM_ChinaStepsToInfluenceElection_16OCT2020_DECLASS_REDACTED.pdf” seems to note that there is no strong consensus that China was actually trying to influence elections, but does cite some examples to argue for the belief that China was exerting influence operations in regards to the 2020 U.S. election.

Most notably, one of the documents titled, “NICA_ Foreign Threats to 2020 US election_19AUG2020 – DECLASS_REDACTED.pdf” notes concern about Russia using a “range of measures primarily to denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia establishment. For example, it is directing or encouraging proxies to spread claims about Vice President Biden. Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media. More broadly, Moscow’s efforts seek to amplify social discord in the US and undermine Washington’s global standing.”

A screenshot from “NICA_ Foreign Threats to 2020 US election_19AUG2020 – DECLASS_REDACTED.pdf”

This makes it a bit ironic that, in Trump’s assertions that China interfered with the 2020 election that Trump lost in, it is made more clear that the bigger concern to the National Intelligence Council was Russia trying to promote Trump’s candidacy.

A screenshot from “NICA_ Foreign Threats to 2020 US election_19AUG2020 – DECLASS_REDACTED.pdf”

“Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation”

The claims about Michigan election fraud only talk about concerns around voter registration drives, and there’s nothing referring to actual balloting or direct correlation to any specific election results.

A lot of the documents are allegations of registration fraud, but there is not a lot of evidence to validate many of them.

They do refer to a legitimate voter registration fraud concern from October 2020, but it appears that the registration fraud was caught around the time the fraudulent registrations were submitted. It is unclear if any actual ballots were cast under fraudulent voter registrations.

“Noncitizens on State Voter Rolls”

There are two PDFs in this zipped file.

One of the documents provided in the zipped files is a DHS document which states that “over 250,000 non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in just the four US states for which public data files have been reviewed”.

The document, which is only one page, does not provide any links or evidence to back up these claims, so the numbers cannot be verified and the claims cannot be validated.

A Quick Review: How is Election Interference Defined?

FindLaw defines election interference as3:

…Any effort to change the outcome of an election, through lawful or unlawful means. Campaigning and electioneering are forms of election interference, though few people object to them. Unlawful election interference is any effort to violate voters’ civil rights through voter suppression, voter intimidation, fraud, or other means.

Other forms of electoral interference include campaign finance violations, media misconduct, and vote-buying. This article will review some recent changes to U.S. election interference laws and what they mean for the average voter.

We’ll look at some examples that fit that criteria for the 2024 election, as well as some of the previous elections in Parts 2 and 3 of this series.

Russia’s Meddling in Past Elections

It’s become well known that Russia has been involved in past elections, and was even noted in the documents the White House provided.

Russian Election Interference in 2020

In August 2020, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement on foreign efforts to influence the ongoing presidential election. China and Iran were mentioned as trying to have Trump defeated, but no clear evidence was provided.

But the statement did clearly say that Russia was “using a range of measures to primarily denigrate” Vice President Joe Biden.4

“The Intelligence Community Assessment released today underscores what we all knew already — that Russia interfered to support former President Trump, hurt President Biden, and undermine confidence in our electoral process. Through proxies, Russia ran a successful intelligence operation that penetrated the former president’s inner circle,” Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement made in March 2021.

Russian Election Interference in 2024

Russia didn’t stop with 2020. They were involved in the 2024 U.S. presidential election as well.

September 4, 2024, the US Department of Justice indicted members of Tenet Media for having received $9.7 million for their Russian influence operation which was aimed at co-opting American right-wing influencers to push out conspiracy theories and content promoting Russia.

The influencers also encouraged their followers to steal ballots, intimidate voters, and remove or destroy ballot drop-offs in the weeks leading up to the election. The influencers, themselves, said they were unaware that Russia was behind hiring them to produce the political content.5

If you really want to dig in, look into Russia’s Internet Research Agency to learn about their specific disinformation campaigns they ran to influence U.S. politics. We plan on covering this more in the future.

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Tomorrow, July 19, we will be releasing Part 2 of our Election Interference series, focusing on the vulnerabilities of electronic voting in the US, and strong evidence that this may have affected the 2024 election significantly.

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I have preserved screenshots of the WhiteHouse.gov pages that I cited above with proper hashes and cryptographic techniques to hold up as evidence in court, in case anyone would like them.