National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard seized voting machines from Puerto Rico as part of an investigation into the 2020 election.
Gabbard’s team investigated Puerto Rico’s voting machines last spring, a development revealed in a Reuters report on Wednesday. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence told CNN in a statement on Wednesday that it seized voting machines from the island to investigate them for insecurities.
The office said the seizure came as a result of “extremely concerning” cybersecurity and operational deployment practices with Puerto Rican voting machines. The operation appeared smoother than the FBI raid of Fulton County, with the ODNI statement saying the federal government’s team “facilitated the voluntary turnover of electronic voting hardware and software to ODNI for analysis.”
The U.S. attorney in Puerto Rico, Homeland Security Investigations agents, and an FBI supervisory special agent took part in the operation.
The investigation was based on “publicly reported claims relating to elections in Puerto Rico alleging discrepancies and systemic anomalies in their electronic voting systems,” the statement added.
