What Might Foreign Interference Look Like?

It’s notoriously difficult to prove vote fraud. But there are some huge red flags here.

John F. Di Leo | July 27, 2026

In President Trump’s prime time address on July 16, he revealed newly declassified evidence that (Mainland) China had spent a mint to acquire considerable election data for the 2020 election, including the full personal data sets on 220 million eligible and/or registered American voters. 

As many reporters point out, we don’t yet have all the data to tie up in a neat little bow proving how this data was used to commit vote fraud.  That would require other, very different types of information.   

It’s notoriously difficult to prove vote fraud, after the fact, because of the secret ballot, which prevents us from being able to match a voted ballot to the person who filled it out, among other challenges.  A country therefore needs to be proactive, and design a system that’s very difficult to cheat in, from the outset. You have to stop it from happening in the first place, because you can’t undo the corrupted, fabricated, or stolen vote after it’s been counted. 

At this point, the main thing for us to get from the speech is the fact that China definitely went to the trouble and expense of acquiring these records.  Why do that, if not to use them to cheat?     

It’s like someone buying safe-cracking tools. Either he means to become a professional locksmith, or he means to rob banks; there’s no other reason to buy them.   

Since foreign governments are not legally allowed to participate in USA elections, we know there’s nothing the Chinese could have done with these files that was legal, so, even though we may not yet have proof of what they did, we know that they spent a huge amount of money to obtain them, so they must have planned to do something with them.  But what? 

Well, we know what a normal, legal political campaign or organization does with a list of potential voters. It puts them on........

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