A cache of declassified intelligence documents released by the Trump administration Thursday night offered bold new details on China’s acquisition of U.S. voter information since 2016, which President Donald Trump called the “largest compromise of election data in history.”Trump said during his primetime address on Thursday that the People’s Republic of China acquired 220 million U.S. voter files containing names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive information. Shortly after the speech, the White House released to the public dozens of declassified documents containing partially redacted findings, including data showing nearly 278,000 noncitizens who are registered to vote in federal elections and details over a “slow-walked” 2020 FBI investigation in Michigan.“This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare,” Trump said. “The intelligence even shows that China assigned a data exploitation unit specifically to this new project.”
A document in the White House release, titled “200M Voter Records Compromised,” says a 45-gigabyte database contained 204,822,241 U.S. voter records from 2016. The report’s third page states the database included voters’ names, ages, telephone numbers, and addresses.A declassified intelligence document released by the White House states that a database contained more than 204 million U.S. voter records, including names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
