President Trump was criticized by the liberal media for his primetime address about election integrity vulnerabilities in July. Some networks refused to broadcast it, but, alas, he ends up being right. It took only days for the ‘nothing to see here’ crowd to eat their words when it was revealed that 6,600 illegals were on New Jersey’s voter rolls, with around 400 voting in previous elections. Since the Garden State has had automatic voter registration since 2018, the actual number is probably higher. It must be, as the Department of Homeland Security identified about 278,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls of New Jersey, Nevada, California, and Pennsylvania. There’s no way New Jersey only has 6,600, which is why they’re blocking the Justice Department from investigating further.
We were told everything was secure. It’s not, as Trump elaborated on how China has engaged in a long-standing campaign of election interference, from compromising voter data to subsidizing anti-Trump propaganda in our media ecosystem. Now, this story of a hacker who compromised the voter data of over 600,000 people in Arizona before the 2020 election, and was never charged for it, thanks to the Biden Justice Department, despite a full confession (via JustTheNews):
Nothing to see here, everyone who raised hell over Arizona 2020. https://t.co/cGgFk6RCez
— Seth Keshel (@RealSKeshel) August 6, 2026
Arizona's largest county suffered a significant breach of its election data in the days before the 2020 presidential election when a self-described hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files but the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors declined to bring charges even after the FBI got the suspect to confess, according to declassified documents made public Thursday by the White House.
The scraping of Maricopa County's voter registration files was the most flagged security incident in a cyberintrusion log kept by U.S. spy agencies in the days around the Nov. 3, 2020 election, and it caused an extensive FBI investigation that led agents to a home in Fountain Hills, Ariz., the memos show.
The man the FBI confronted admitted he wrote a computer script to exploit the county voter systems security and scraped the files, which included 930 with "sensitive voter information like domestic violence victims, judges and law enforcement officers," according to the FBI case files declassified and made public by President Donald Trump's White House Government Transparency Task Force.
FBI Director Kash Patel sent a letter to that task force this week stating the bureau spent "significant resources" but could not get the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, the Maricopa County Arizona Attorney’s Office or the Pinal County, Arizona Attorney’s Office to bring charges despite an admission from the alleged hacker.
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Voter registration files do not include ballots, and there's no evidence votes were changed in the incident, But the U.S. intelligence community has been warning since 2020 that if bad actors gained access to such files they could hamper the ability of voters to cast ballots in the future. China has obtained about 220 million such files, documents released last month by President Donald Trump show.
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The man was forthcoming, telling federal agents exactly how he discovered the vulnerability in the Maricopa County Recorder’s website and how he wrote a computer script to exploit it, according to an FD-302 memorializing the interview. An FD-302 is the official FBI form used by special agents to write down a summary of an interview with a witness, suspect, or informant.
The suspect, who described himself as a “hacker or tinkerer,” told the agents that he first discovered the vulnerabilities in Maricopa’s website about two months earlier, in September 2020. “He noticed his voter ID appeared in the URL” after entering his own voter information and “tested the vulnerability by entering several seven-digit numbers into the URL path resulting in access to different voter registration information,” the agents wrote.
The outlet added that the suspected hacker knew he was likely going to get a visit from law enforcement over this act and scrubbed his hard drives. This individual was tempted to go to the media to detail what he’s done but chose to keep it a secret.
Our election system is vulnerable. It shouldn’t be that way. Why are Democrats so keen on keeping it wide open to attack?
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