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US Government Says No Foreign Actor Altered Voting Processes In 2020 Elections

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021

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US Government Says No Foreign Actor Altered Voting Processes In 2020 Elections

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence

While Russian President Vladimir Putin directed his government agencies to conduct influence operations aimed at hurting then Democratic President candidate Joe Biden and helping former President Donald Trump during the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, the U.S. intelligence community didn’t see a sustained effort by Russia to compromise U.S. electoral processes and found no evidence that any foreign government interfered with the technical aspects of the nation’s voting processes, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said Tuesday in…

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