White House is withholding an ODNI report on the security of voting machines

According to Reuters, officials within Donald Trump’s administration are delaying the release of a report on voting machine security that was conducted by outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard. Sources told Reuters that voting machines could be more secure, but there is no evidence that these vulnerabilities have caused recorded votes to be flipped. The delay in releasing this report is allegedly because the White House doesn’t want to undermine voter confidence in these voting machines.

The report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) highlights outdated software that the machines run on and the fact that some of these machines connect to the internet, which is a potential access point for hackers. It’s the second report that was commissioned by Trump’s White House to find evidence in support of his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him; the other report was the Mojave Research report which look into the machines in the territory of Puerto Rico. Reuters’ sources stated that neither report has found evidence that America’s voting machines were hacked or that votes were flipped and we have to rely on these sources because neither report has been released to the public.

ODNI has provided several briefings to members of the administration over the last six months, but has been denied permission to publish them. Many states have not stayed on top of updating the operating systems for these machines.

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These reports have recommended an emergency remediation plan for the software that would require states to run an update. But the administration has not implemented this, or any other recommendation, in the reports. White House staff as been more interested in figuring out if the reports have enough evidence to support the president’s lies bout the 2020 election. Members of the administration have had several meetings to discuss these reports to discuss if there is evidence to support those lies.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has found no evidence to support foreign interference in the counts for the 2020 election. A conclusion that has been backed by the court system routinely rejecting lawsuits brought by the president and his allies in the aftermath of said election and January 6th, 2021.

Both Gabbard’s most recent report, and the Mojave report, utilized evidence in separate reports from the CISA that indicated outdated software could make voting machines susceptible to hacking. Mojave’s contract was terminated in October, 2025, after the White House had received its report; and Gabbard has resigned from her position as DNI due to her husband’s diagnosis with bone cancer.