President Donald Trump, in a primetime speech, alleged vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, despite declassified documents released by his administration largely discussing vulnerabilities that have been known for years and that election officials around the country have tried to address.

Declassified Documents

Declassified documents shed light on the scope of Chinese hacking targeting Americans. The documents show China doing cyber espionage, or the use of hacking to collect sensitive information, and the use of cyberattacks to disrupt elections are two very different things.

The documents show the lengths that Chinese hackers allegedly went to spy on senior US government officials and the 2020 presidential campaign of Joe Biden. One Chinese hacking group was using techniques to track the email accounts of Biden campaign staffers.

State Responses

Nevada’s secretary of state’s office flatly rejected the assertion that thousands of noncitizens are on its voter rolls. Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt raised similar questions, saying, “We welcome DHS sharing their methodology and list of potential ineligible voters so we can carefully review the validity of their claims.”

Democratic governors accused President Donald Trump of attempting to undermine elections, saying they “stand ready to fight back against the Trump administration and stop any and all unlawful attacks on every American’s constitutional right to vote.”

Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.