{"id":2580791,"date":"2026-03-17T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-declassified-doc-confirms-china-did-in-fact-breach-us-election-security-leading-up-to-2020-election\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:34:05","slug":"breaking-declassified-doc-confirms-china-did-in-fact-breach-us-election-security-leading-up-to-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-declassified-doc-confirms-china-did-in-fact-breach-us-election-security-leading-up-to-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Declassified Doc Confirms China Did, in Fact, Breach US Election Security Leading up to 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-declassified-doc-confirms-china-did-in-fact-breach-us-election-security-leading-up-to-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2580791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A recent article argues that, as Republicans push the SAVE America Act to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paxton-urges-gop-state-lawmakers-to-tighten-election-integrity-laws\/\" title=\"Paxton Urges GOP State Lawmakers to Tighten ... Laws\">bolster election integrity<\/a> in the Senate, a new Washington report raises a potential threat to U.S. elections: Chinese cyber intrusions. It references a declassified 2020 National Intelligence Council memo,reported by Just the News,which claims Beijing accessed U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utah-defies-dojs-demand-to-hand-over-voter-data-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Utah defies DOJ\u2019s demand to hand over ... - Washington Examiner\">voter-registration data<\/a> to analyze public opinion for the 2020 election-data described as highly sensitive and not the ballots themselves. The piece notes that this involves personal details such as driver\u2019s licence data and partial Social Security numbers, and underscores privacy and security concerns, including state efforts to limit federal access to such data. It also cites the United Kingdom\u2019s experience in 2021, when Chinese hackers breached the UK\u2019s electoral register, leading to sanctions and a reward for information. The article contends that the Biden administration did not adequately disclose these concerns at the time and uses this to criticize Democratic handling of election-security information, while arguing that the SAVE America Act would be a needed step to strengthen protections. It contrasts the controversy over 2016 Russian interference with the asserted Chinese operations and suggests political incentives shaped what information was made public.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Republicans working to pass the SAVE America Act in the Senate to safeguard election integrity, a new report out of Washington is highlighting a potential danger to American elections that Democrats don&rsquo;t want to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>And it turns out there&rsquo;s a good reason for that &mdash; since it could cast a shadow over Joe Biden&rsquo;s victory in the 2020 vote that has never quite set right with the American right.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a danger that comes from the People&rsquo;s Republic of China &mdash; the United States&rsquo; most dangerous enemy on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>According to a document obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/security\/us-intel-has-known-2020-china-gained-access-us-voter-files-memos-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a>, and confirmed with officials who had knowledge of the investigation, Beijing was able to electronically infiltrate unidentified American election systems as part of a cyber-espionage campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Redacted] Chinese intelligence officials analyzed multiple U.S. states&rsquo; [Redacted] election voter registration data, [Redacted] to conduct public opinion analysis on the 2020 US general election,&rdquo; a portion of an April 2020 National Intelligence Council document stated.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-03\/NICM-Declassified-Cyber-Operations-Enabling-Expansive-Digital-Authoritarianism-20200407--2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a>, titled &ldquo;Cyber Operations Enabling Expansive Authoritarianism,&rdquo; was &ldquo;quietly declassified&rdquo; in 2022, but received no attention from either President Joe Biden&rsquo;s administration or from the establishment media.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That means six years later that the U.S. intelligence community has yet to fully inform the American people or the Congress on the breadth of evidence it possesses of China&rsquo;s actions, how Beijing got the data, and what operations it has taken or contemplated,&rdquo; wrote Just the News founder John Solomon and chief investigative correspondent Jerry Dunleavy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BOMBSHELL: As early as Feb. 2020, U.S. intel confirmed China had breached security and accessed 2020 U.S. voter registration data.<\/p>\n<p>Just the News reports &ldquo;several intelligence officials [confirmed] this has been covered up for years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonySeruga?\">@TonySeruga<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J7VJ97uG2c\">pic.twitter.com\/J7VJ97uG2c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Western Journal (@WesternJournalX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternJournalX\/status\/2033686140037845215?\">March 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The information in question relates to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vulnerable-house-republicans-wary-of-government-shutdown-fight-looming-after-recess-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Vulnerable House Republicans wary of government shutdown fight looming after recess - Washington Examiner\">voter registration &#038;mdash<\/a>; not actual voting systems. But that doesn&rsquo;t make it unimportant.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Voter registration data is not the same as ballots, where Americans choose their candidates,&rdquo; Solomon and Dunleavy wrote. &ldquo;But it contains sensitive personally identifying information, including driver&rsquo;s license data and partial Social Security numbers. The data is considered so sensitive that several Democrat states are currently trying to keep the Trump Justice Department from obtaining it and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/tracker-justice-department-requests-voter-information#:~:text=The%20requests%20cover%20sensitive%2C%20private%20information%20such%20as%20driver%E2%80%99s%20license%20numbers%20and%20partial%20Social%20Security%20numbers.%20Its%20collection%20by%20the%20federal%20government%20raises%20serious%C2%A0privacy%20and%20security%20concerns%C2%A0and%C2%A0may%20violate%20state%20and%20federal%20laws.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">liberal groups claim it is a holy grail of election integrity<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And who was the only intel official sounding serious warnings about Chinese activities? Trump&rsquo;s director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-if-youre-looking-for-election-rigging-look-no-further-than-media-treatment-of-hunter-biden-saga\/\" title=\"FNC&#039;s Carlson: &#039;If You&#039;re Looking for ... Rigging, Look No Further&#039; Than Media Treatment of Hunter Biden Saga\">national intelligence<\/a> in 2020, John Ratcliffe.<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder, too, that President Joe Biden&rsquo;s administration made a big to-do about this sort of thing happening in the United Kingdom. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/europe\/u-k-to-blame-china-for-hacking-details-of-millions-of-voters-a94697fe?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqf9Mr5AUgl5lAmVJ9FDwSW6d2WAOLExmfxH1eKvHWmovZJ3xHN7-j0vTEuaMfY%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69b83601&amp;gaa_sig=x5aE6iqM0bwNw1liWI9R6KOGHxCaxuQ9FsJlqRn086nQ8l4uExHjcok6VRYg8JRr7tQpK0pjPrTjxOpmrLn64Q%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, April of 2024:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Biden administration hit alleged Chinese hackers with sanctions and criminal charges on Monday while the British government accused Beijing of hacking the U.K.&rsquo;s electoral register to steal the personal details of tens of millions of voters, part of a global push by allies to condemn China&rsquo;s expanding aggression in cyberspace. &hellip;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The alleged hackers, alongside five other defendants, were also indicted on criminal charges unsealed by the U.S. Justice Department, and the U.S. State Department offered a $10 million reward for information about the group.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;The United States will continue its work to disrupt the dangerous and irresponsible actions of cyber actors targeting critical infrastructure,&rdquo; said Brian Nelson, a senior Treasury Department official. &ldquo;Through continued close coordination with our U.K. partners, and a unified, whole of government approach, we will protect our citizens from the catastrophic risks these <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >reckless cyber activities pose<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The U.K.&rsquo;s Electoral Commission, which manages elections, said last year that hackers had accessed the nation&rsquo;s voter-registration records&mdash;which included the names and addresses of around 40 million people&mdash;as well as the commission&rsquo;s  system and information about political donors. The hackers accessed the system in 2021 but were only detected in late 2022, the commission said at the time.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why not go public with the knowledge that the Chinese government had also tried similar shenanigans in the United States? A charitable reading might be that we wouldn&rsquo;t want our adversaries to know what we know about them.<\/p>\n<p>A more uncharitable reading might be 1) we were all supposed to pretend 2020 was The Safest and Most Secure Election Ever&trade; and 2) this would have made the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election &mdash; never proven beyond penny-ante hijinks &mdash; look piddling by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Reading the memo, you realize this isn&rsquo;t like what the Democrats alleged handed Donald Trump the election eight years ago: A handful of dodgy Moldovan fake news sites making claims like Hillary Clinton killed a man in Reno just to watch him die (or whatever).<\/p>\n<p>Here we have a National Intelligence Council assessment from the heat of the 2020 election confirming that China had wide swaths of voter data and was looking to export its cyber-despotism beyond Beijing, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the like. That&rsquo;s kind of a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>And for four years, there were crickets from the Biden administration, all as the president was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chinas-xi-jinping-showed-total-lack-respect-biden-blunt-face-face-warning-report\/\">pushed around<\/a> by a bellicose Xi Jinping. (Funny, he seems a bit quieter these days, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-iran-venezuela-moves-putting-squeeze-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since Operation Epic Fury<\/a>. But I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>Remember when Joe Biden told us he was the defender of democracy? That he was the only thing standing between America and real, live despotism? So why, then, did he not talk about this with the American people?<\/p>\n<p>Damn being charitable. We know full well that the Democratic narrative was that the Russians supposedly handed Trump the 2016 election, which they didn&rsquo;t. That needed to be preserved at all cost. So, too, did the idea that the United States had no worries about its election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, barely a word was breathed about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wapo-intel-reporter-humiliated-video-china-recording-us-military-iran-turns-atlanta-airport\/\">the Chinese<\/a> getting access to voter data in 2020, which they did.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/thune-announces-bringing-save-america-act-senate-floor-forcing-dems-go-record-opposing-83-percent-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAVE America Act<\/a>, which has passed in the House and is facing an uncertain future in the Senate, might not have prevented the Chinese operations, but it&rsquo;s at least a much-needed step in the direction of shoring up American election security.<\/p>\n<p>And if American election security had a higher priority, future administrations might not be so casual about covering up revelations that a foreign power is interested in hacking U.S. election systems.<\/p>\n<p>And which party is trying desperately to keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/republicans-set-inflict-pain-democrats-senate-floor-save-america-act-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAVE America Act<\/a> from passing?<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s yet more proof that the Democrats really are an anti-compass: You can always navigate true by going in the exact opposite direction they point to.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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A document obtained by Just the News and corroborated by officials suggests Beijing studied U.S. voter-registration data across several states to gauge public opinion for the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article notes that a memo titled \u201cCyber Operations Enabling Expansive Authoritarianism\u201d was quietly declassified in 2022 but largely ignored by the Biden administration and mainstream media. It argues that, six years later, the U.S. intelligence community still hasn\u2019t fully disclosed how China acquired the data or what operations it conducted or contemplated, which raises questions about the breadth of China\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The report concerns voter-registration data rather than actual ballots. While not the same as voting results, voter-registration data contains sensitive personal information (such as driver\u2019s license details and partial Social Security numbers). Some Democrat-led states have resisted attempts by the Trump-era Justice Department to obtain it, and liberal groups regard it as crucial to election integrity. John Ratcliffe, Trump\u2019s director of national intelligence in 2020, was singled out as one of the few officials who publicly warned about Chinese activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The piece also recalls a 2024 Wall Street Journal report about sanctions on alleged Chinese hackers and Britain\u2019s claim that Beijing hacked the U.K.\u2019s electoral register to steal voter details, with a $10 million reward for information. The U.K. Electoral Commission said attackers accessed about 40 million voter-registration records and donor data, with detection only occurring in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article questions why similar Chinese attempts in the United States weren\u2019t made public sooner, suggesting either a desire not to reveal adversaries\u2019 capabilities or political calculations to minimize concerns about 2020. It argues the memo shows China had broad access to voter data and aimed to extend its cyber-authoritarian reach beyond its own borders, which would be a major development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author contends that the Biden administration did not publicly address these issues for years, while criticizing the Democrats\u2019 stance on election integrity. The SAVE America Act may not have prevented past operations, but supporters see it as a necessary step to strengthen U.S. election security. 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