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Trump officials reportedly asked staffers to secretly hack a voting machine.

The Verge •
October 19, 2026 • 03:35 PM
• By Lauren Feiner
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The request from political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was never fulfilled, ProPublica found, but staffers were shocked at the directive not to report flaws back to the voting machine company. It demonstrates why state officials’ trust in CISA has eroded. [Link: This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump. | https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump | ProPublica]

Trump officials reportedly asked staffers to secretly hack a voting machine.

The request from political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was never fulfilled, ProPublica found, but staffers were shocked at the directive not to report flaws back to the voting machine company. It demonstrates why state officials’ trust in CISA has eroded .

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