Senior FBI official says they have not seen a co-ordinated, countrywide effort to corrupt mail-in voting
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Protesters demonstrate during a"National Day of Action to Save the"Peoples" Post Office!" outside the Flagler Station post office on Aug. 25, 2020, in Miami. The pandemic has pushed the Postal Service into a central role in the 2020 elections, with tens of millions of people expected to vote by mail rather than in-person.U.S.
A senior FBI official said officials had not seen to date a co-ordinated, countrywide effort to corrupt mail-in voting. The official also said, given the diffuse and varied election systems across the country, it would be “extraordinarily difficult” to tamper with results in a measurable way. But the official said the FBI remained committed to investigating any fraud that emerges.
“We cannot escape the reality that the opportunities for malign foreign influence in our elections are far-flung, so it remains a challenge for Americans as voters,” Rosen said.Even without active efforts to corrupt the vote-by-mail process, intelligence officials have publicly warned about foreign countries who they say have a vested interest in the election.
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