Many allegations, little evidence: unpacking the China election-interference records
Declassified US intelligence files showing millions of Americans’ voter information do not back Trump’s claims Beijing hacked 2020 election
The documents released by the White House provide new details about China’s collection and analysis of US voter information, as well as an internal dispute among American intelligence officials over whether Beijing’s broader political activities amounted to election influence.
Several of the records describe the voter information as publicly available, commercially obtained or drawn from data sets that may previously have been leaked, complicating the White House’s assertion that the records were “compromised” by China.
One intelligence report says an unidentified Chinese entity possessed a document listing data sets believed to have been leaked or compromised. Among them was an unspecified collection containing about 204.8 million US voter records from 2016, including names, ages, telephone numbers and addresses.