President Donald Trump outlined alleged vulnerabilities with the U.S. election system in a primetime address Thursday, focusing heavily on what he said were Chinese efforts to undermine his presidency and American elections, and calling once again for passage of a bill that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship to register and photo identification to cast a ballot.
Trump started his speech with a list of accomplishments from his second term but quickly turned his focus to election integrity.
Trump said he was declassifying and releasing “critical intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” – an election system he said falls “catastrophically short” of the security that Americans deserve.
Trump said the documents, now available on the White House website, were gathered by a task force and cover multiple areas of concern with U.S. elections.
"Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it," Trump told Americans. "It is not defensible. Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments. Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to hacking and manipulation and corruption. China and other countries have been trying to meddle in our elections. Evidence of fraud has been buried. Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls. And yet, we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots flowing aimlessly through the mail."
Here are some key takeaways from Trump's address on China's alleged interference, voting system vulnerabilities, and his push for the SAVE America Act.
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