Election-security experts say Trump's declassified documents show little that is new

Independent election-security experts and nonpartisan election organizations said the documents Trump declassified for his July 16 address contained little that was not already publicly known. David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research and a former Justice Department voting-rights attorney, said "the White House promised a bombshell and they delivered a dud," adding that the disclosures amounted to "what panic and desperation look like." Geoff Hale of the Center for Democracy and Technology, who spent a decade at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said known election-system vulnerabilities are already addressed by existing safeguards. Pam Smith of Verified Voting said the speech conflated different types of voting technology, "the vast majority of which doesn't actually affect election outcomes," and FactCheck.org concluded voter registration files China allegedly acquired are largely public data already for sale in most states.

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