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 n...
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