Gabbard backs paper ballots, claims voting machines vulnerable to hackers

In a startling revelation during a Cabinet meeting, former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard announced that her office has obtained evidence showing major security flaws in the nation’s electronic voting systems — vulnerabilities she claims could allow hackers to flip votes.

"We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections," Gabbard told the President and officials in attendance.

The announcement came just a day after President Donald Trump signed executive orders directing the Department of Justice to investigate Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), for his role in the 2020 election. Krebs was fired by Trump after publicly declaring the 2020 election as secure and rejecting allegations of widespread fraud.

Krebs' assurances angered Trump, especially after he authorized a statement with other election officials stating there was no evidence of altered or stolen votes. He later served as a key witness in the Jan. 6 Committee, where he criticised GOP leadership for fueling election conspiracy theories, calling it a “self-reinforcing cycle” of misinformation.

The DOJ probe into Krebs, as well as former DHS official Miles Taylor, marks the latest escalation in Trump’s campaign to pursue former appointees who became critics. Both have now become subjects of a federal investigation launched through unprecedented use of presidential executive authority.