Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council
Federal and state election officials' council that found no 2020 voting-machine fraud.
Donald Trump's 9 November post that the midterms were all about the machines repeats a claim the council rejected on 12 November 2020, when it called that election the most secure in American history.
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The council was set up in 2017, after the Department of Homeland Security designated election systems as critical infrastructure, and adopted its Charter that October. Its executive committee includes the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Election Assistance Commission, and The National associations of secretaries of state and state election directors.
On 12 November 2020 it called that election the most secure in American history and said there was no evidence any voting system deleted, lost or changed votes. In 2025 CISA paused its election security work and cut funding for the election information-sharing centre the council helped run.
Its 2020 finding is the benchmark for the machine claim Trump revived on Truth Social on 9 November 2026. By 10 November no Republican campaign had gone to court over any 2026 result.
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