A public statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shows that the United States still is not looking at foreign insider threats or foreign control or manipulation of electronic voting technology in the upcoming elections.
Indeed, ODNI states that foreign actors are running “broad efforts aimed at undermining trust in U.S. democratic processes.”
“As we approach election day, the IC [intelligence community] … expects foreign actors to continue their campaigns by calling into question the validity of the election’s results after the polls close. Foreign actors are almost certainly considering the possibility of another contested presidential election and a tight contest for control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. They will likely take advantage of such an opportunity to use similar tactics in a post-election period to undermine trust in the integrity of the election, election processes, and further exacerbate divisions among Americans.”
For the first time in its election threat series since July, ODNI cites Cuba as a concern, but only in the area of influence operations: “Cuba, for example, probably views this year’s election as consequential, and it almost certainly has considered influence efforts targeting some candidates, consistent with past election cycles. We assess Havana may be, as it has done in previous cycles, trying to curry favor from congressional and subnational politicians that it believes would support their preferred policies.”
It does not assess Cuba as having any interest in the presidential race.
The report only covers foreign influence operations, such as propaganda or disinformation. It says nothing about detection of foreign efforts to manipulate voting technology or vote tabulation.
Source
1.- https://www.dni.gov/files/FMIC/documents/ODNI-Election-Security-Update-20241007.pdf
1. Why has U.S. intelligence still not made any reports on threats to the many known vulnerabilities of electronic voting technology?
2. Why has U.S. intelligence not raised questions about the foreign ownership of electronic voting vendors; foreign staffing, including computer engineers, of companies that make and manage electronic voting software; and the lack of vetting of foreign personnel involved in American voting systems?
3. Why does intelligence continue to look only at traditional information operations, and not non-traditional operations?
4. Why does intelligence have no public assessment of insider threats within electronic voting systems providers?
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