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Explainer: How Trump could use his speech to target voting machines and promote election chaos

Explainer: How Trump could use his speech to target voting machines and promote election chaos

President Trump may use a primetime address tonight to crack down on the use of electronic voting machines, perhaps by ordering the decertification of machines over alleged vulnerabilities.

President Donald Trump is expected to allege in his primetime address Thursday night that foreign governments — likely China — meddled with election systems in the 2020 presidential race, citing newly declassified intelligence information, multiple media outlets reported.

In reality, U.S. intelligence has concluded that no foreign actor altered any aspect of the voting or vote-counting process, or even tried to.

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