Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently confirmed that the voting machines commonly used in U.S. elections are indeed susceptible to hacking and capable of changing votes.
Gabbard said during a recent White House Cabinet meeting that the intel community has information indicating voting machines have been vulnerable for a long time:
We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time, and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast.
Gabbard said this information makes the Trump administration’s election-integrity agenda that much more pressing.
On March 25, President Trump signed an election-integrity executive order. The order mandates that only U.S. citizens be permitted to vote in federal elections, requires enforcement of federal laws that define the date and time of elections and when ballots are to be counted, and necessitates a paper record for votes while barring voting by barcode.
The order also empowers the U.S. attorney general to take action against states that count ballots received after Election Day, and it withholds federal funding from states that refuse to comply with federal voting laws. You can read more about Trump’s election executive order here.
History of Vulnerability
That voting machines are vulnerable to hacking is not a surprise to readers of this publication or of other publications in the “alternative media” realm. The issue gained notoriety after the 2020 presidential election, but the systems have been vulnerable before that.
In 2017, it took less than one day for attendees of the DEF CON hacking conference to find and exploit vulnerabilities in five different voting machine types, USA Today’s affiliate Naples Daily News reported.
In 2018, a similar thing happened. And the report from that year’s conference reached Capitol Hill. At the time, Democrats such as Representative Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) were open to hearing about election vulnerabilities in machines because the trendy narrative was that Trump won because of election hacking by the Russians.
But in 2020, Trump was the victim of multiple forms of election interference. The most obvious was propaganda and suppression of information, including the Hunter Biden laptop story. That episode alone, some have suggested, would have tipped the scales to Trump had it been reported accurately.
Machine manipulation was also suspected in the 2020 election. Investigators such as Dr. David Clements and Michael Gableman have made convincing arguments in support of Gabbard’s latest comments that voting machines are vulnerable to manipulation. Clements’ documentary Let My People Go goes to great lengths to show how machine manipulation works. You can read Clements’ TNA interview here.
SAVE Act
In a positive development concerning election integrity, the U.S. House passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act by a 220-208 vote. The bill received “Yea” votes from all House Republicans and even attracted the votes of five Democrats. The proposal essentially requires proof of citizenship for those who want to vote in federal elections. It also instructs states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls.
Once it gets to the Senate, the SAVE Act faces the 60-vote filibuster threshold, which it’s unlikely to clear.
Constitutional Concerns
While the SAVE Act may be well-received by supporters, there are serious concerns. Constitutional law scholar Joe Wolverton II, J.D. outlined such concerns in a September 16, 2024 TNA article. Some problems with the SAVE Act include:
- it undermines the constitutional understanding of citizenship by broadly categorizing anyone born on U.S. soil a citizen, regardless of his parents’ legal status;
- it paves the way for foreign influence by extending citizenship — and, by extension, voting rights — to the children of those who came to the U.S. illegally, including the children of individuals from hostile nations such as China or countries influenced by radical ideologies;
- it requires documentary proof of citizenship, which disproportionately affects women who changed their names after marriage;
Wolverton believes the SAVE Act is not really what it’s portrayed to be. He concludes:
The true goal of the SAVE Act is not to protect U.S. elections but to align with the broader globalist agenda of eroding national sovereignty through legislative deception. By forcing American citizens to jump through hoops to prove their right to vote, while simultaneously granting voting rights to children of illegal immigrants and foreign diplomats, the SAVE Act advances a globalist agenda that seeks to consolidate power and control over the American populace.
This publication has outlined the constitutional and liberty-oriented approach to securing elections for years. Election expert Kurt Hyde wrote in our February 15, 2021 issue that early voting needs to be abolished, paper ballots need to be reinstated and machines thrown out, the local precinct needs to be the only place for voting, candidates need to be allowed to choose which areas they want to audit, precinct vote results should be publicly and immediately posted, there needs to be a mandatory cleaning of voter-registration rolls, an absolute chain of custody for ballots should be required, unattended drop boxes should be eliminated, the Motor Voter and HAVA (Help America Vote Act of 2002) repealed, and voter ID implemented.
