By Steven Richards | Just the News
Declassified documents, other evidence, reveal that despite official assurances of a secure 2020 election, government agencies possessed intelligence regarding significant security vulnerabilities, foreign data breaches, and potential manipulation risks.
After several batches of documents were recently declassified and released by the White House, the American people now have more evidence than ever that while officials claimed 2020 was a historically secure election, the government had plenty of evidence of security vulnerabilities, hacks and foreign interference.
Shortly after the election, senior government officials insisted that it was the “most secure” in American history, deflecting concerns about security, including about voting systems and mail-in-ballots.
One of the lead government officials responsible for election security, Chris Krebs, the then-director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testified to the Senate after the election that he had approved an assessment that said “the 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history.”
However, after the new batches of documents were declassified and released this summer by the White House, Americans have more evidence than ever that those same officials knew about significant breaches of election data and internally raised concerns about how foreign actors could influence the election and the vulnerability of electronic voting machines.
President Donald Trump has used this evidence to argue for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which would, among other provisions, require proof of citizenship for individuals to vote in federal elections.
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