Multiple US agencies have disputed a claim by President Trump that foreign governments are planning to interfere with mail-in voting tallies and therefore no one should be allowed to vote-by-mail, according to an Associated Press report.
Though it did not overtly contradict Trump’s claim that foreign governments could simply print ballots and send them in to be counted, the report claims that it found no evidence of such a plot, nor would such a plan likely be successful.
On a conference call with reporters, officials from the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that they found no evidence of any coordinated national effort by a foreign government to tamper in the election using mail-in ballots.
The FBI official also noted that because the US is made up of a multitude of diverse election commissions using different ballots and verification systems, a large-scale fraud operation would be unlikely “extraordinarily difficult.”