On Thursday morning, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, announced that her office has discovered evidence of longstanding vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems that could enable hackers to manipulate election results. “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 during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
Gabbard, confirmed earlier this year despite doubts about her intelligence background and foreign policy positions, did not hesitate to identify what she viewed as systemic flaws in America’s electoral infrastructure. “We’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best of the best going after this,” she said. “Election integrity being one of them.”
Her comments come just one day after President Trump directed the Department of Justice to investigate former CISA director Chris Krebs for his handling of the 2020 election—a move that marks a dramatic escalation in the administration’s drive for election integrity. The former Democrat-turned-Independent-turned-Republican congresswoman from Hawaii did not specify which electronic voting systems were under review, nor did she name any vendors or jurisdictions. However, she made it clear that the findings bolster the Trump administration’s renewed push for adopting paper ballots nationwide.
The bombshell adds urgency to President Trump’s push to reform federal election systems in advance of the November midterms and the 2028 general election. For many Trump supporters, Thursday’s announcement validates long-held suspicions about electronic voting systems—issues that have sparked widespread concern and fierce political debate since 2020. Just months into her tenure, Gabbard has emerged as one of the administration’s most outspoken champions for transparency. In addition to scrutinizing electronic voting methods, she has vowed to release long-hidden documents related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On Thursday, Gabbard revealed that a team of over 100 individuals has been working tirelessly to digitize records related to the assassinations and the subsequent investigations. “These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades,” she told President Trump, seated just feet from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “They have never been scanned or seen before. We’ll have those ready to release here within the next few days.”
