更新于2026年2月6日，美国东部时间下午4:08 | 发布于2026年2月6日，美国东部时间下午3:00 | 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：肖恩·林加斯（Sean Lyngaas）、埃文·佩雷斯（Evan Perez）
2022年5月19日，俄勒冈州奥勒冈市，克拉克马斯县选举办公室的一名选举工作人员正在检查选票。
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一些联邦官员担忧，州和地方选举管理者对特朗普政府动机日益增长的怀疑，可能引发对联邦调查局（FBI）例行举措的不信任，从而阻碍与各州的合作，并为试图影响选举的美国对手提供可乘之机。
本周，一名FBI官员向各州最高选举官员发送了一封标准电子邮件，邀请他们讨论联邦机构如何协助确保中期选举的安全。
经CNN审核的这封电子邮件称，联邦调查局、国土安全部、美国邮政调查局及其他机构希望与选举官员讨论他们能为中期选举提供哪些支持。自2016年俄罗斯干预选举以来，联邦政府一直致力于向选举管理者提供安全资源，此类信息在此期间多次发出。
然而，这封由Crooked Media首次报道的电子邮件，是在FBI执行对佐治亚州富尔顿县选举办公室的搜查令并扣押与2020年选举相关的选票一周后发出的——这一举动令许多选举官员感到震惊。同时，这也发生在国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德（Tulsi Gabbard）着手研究投票机安全漏洞之际，因为她试图支持唐纳德·特朗普总统关于2020年选举被窃取的虚假说法。
特朗普还发表言论引发担忧，他称希望共和党人“接管至少15个地区的投票工作”并“将选举全国化”——对此，其政府给出了前后矛盾的解释。
一名匿名的共和党选举官员表示，富尔顿县的搜查行动以及特朗普第二个任期内削减联邦选举安全工作，导致部分选举官员与联邦政府之间的“信任度下降”。该共和党官员补充道，富尔顿县的搜查行动“让许多选举官员感到担忧”。
2026年1月28日，美国佐治亚州尤宁市，根据一名熟悉此事的执法官员称，美国联邦调查局（FBI）执行搜查令后，国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德（Tulsi Gabbard）在卡车装卸区打电话。
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这对FBI来说是个问题。一名美国官员向CNN表示，各州、该局及其他联邦机构之间的安全协调若出现任何中断，外国情报机构若试图影响或破坏选举，将获得优势。
特朗普第一个任期内建立了庞大的联邦安全架构，用于追踪和抵御外国对选举的影响。但第二个特朗普政府大幅削减了这一架构，关闭了FBI及加巴德办公室中专门用于打击外国影响的中心。
据CNN报道，在中期选举临近之际，现任和前任官员普遍担忧，美国政府打击外国势力干预选举的意愿已减弱。
加巴德解释自己出现在富尔顿县搜查现场时，称自己是出于负责对外事务的职责，但未提供任何公开证据证明富尔顿县与外国威胁有关联。
“那匹马已经跑了，”这名共和党选举官员表示。“如果有确凿证据表明富尔顿县存在实际外国影响，美国政府本应早已披露。”
一名熟悉FBI外展工作的选举界消息人士表示，这封FBI电子邮件“理论上应该是例行公事，并且有益无害”。“但现任政府和内阁部长的行为，已在联邦与州当局之间造成了严重的信任问题。”
选举界的其他消息人士告诉CNN，存在选举官员（或媒体评论员）对这封例行FBI电子邮件反应过度、“危言耸听”的风险，因为他们对特朗普政府威胁将选举“联邦化”等诸多其他合法关切更应关注。
联邦选举援助委员会委员唐·帕尔默（Don Palmer）表示，即将举行的与选举官员的通话是“为中期选举年建立联络点并分享信息的机会”。
亚利桑那州马里科帕县前共和党最高选举官员斯蒂芬·里彻（Stephen Richer）曾因称2020年选举安全而面临暴力威胁，他表示，过去选举周期中，联邦官员与地方和州官员在安全问题上合作时，彼此间“非常熟悉”。
但里彻表示，现在可能有“相当多”的选举官员将联邦官员视为潜在的“对手”。
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的蒂尔尼·斯尼德（Tierney Sneed）对此报道亦有贡献。
States’ mistrust of Trump’s fraud crusade could hinder fight against foreign influence in elections, federal officials fear
Updated Feb 6, 2026, 4:08 PM ET | Published Feb 6, 2026, 3:00 PM ET | CNN
By Sean Lyngaas, Evan Perez
An election worker examines a ballot at the Clackamas County Elections office May 19, 2022, Oregon City, Ore.
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State and local election administrators’ growing suspicion of the Trump administration’s motives has triggered concerns among some federal officials that distrust of even routine moves by the FBI could hinder cooperation with states and give an opening for US adversaries trying to influence elections.
An FBI official this week sent a standard email to top state election officials inviting them to discuss how federal agencies could help with securing the midterms.
The email, reviewed by CNN, said the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, US Postal Investigative Service and other agencies wanted to speak with election officials about what support they could provide for the midterm elections. It’s a message that has gone out numerous times in the years since Russia’s 2016 influence campaign as the feds have looked to offer security resources for election administrators.
But this email, the existence of which was first reported by Crooked Media, came a week after the FBI executed a search warrant at the elections office of Fulton County, Georgia, and seized ballots related to the 2020 election — a move that alarmed many election officials. And it came amid Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s move to study voting machines for security vulnerabilities as she tries to support President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 contest was stolen from him.
Trump has also sparked alarm by saying he wants Republicans to “take over the voting, in at least … 15 places” and “nationalize” elections — comments for which his administration has given shifting explanations.
The Fulton County search and cuts to federal election security efforts in the second Trump administration have led to an “erosion of trust” between some election officials and the federal government, said one Republican election official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The Fulton County search “raises concerns among a lot of election officials,” the Republican added.
United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing at the edge of a truck loading bay after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant for the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in relation to the 2020 election, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the matter, in Union City, Georgia, U.S. January 28, 2026.
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That’s a problem for the FBI. Any disruption in the security coordination between states, the bureau and other federal agencies, means foreign intelligence services will have an advantage if they try to shape or disrupt the elections, one U.S. official told CNN.
The first Trump administration built up a big federal security structure for tracking and defending against foreign influence on elections. But the second Trump administration has severely curtailed it, closing centers dedicated to countering foreign influence at the FBI and in Gabbard’s office.
Heading into the midterms, there is widespread concern among current and former officials that the US government’s willingness to combat foreign efforts to shape elections has waned, CNN has reported.
Explaining her presence at the Fulton County search, Gabbard has cited her foreign-focused responsibilities to justify her presence but has not provided any public evidence connecting Fulton County to any foreign threat.
“That horse has already left the barn,” the Republican election official said. “If there were credible evidence of actual foreign influence” in Fulton County, the US government would have previously disclosed it, the official added.
The FBI email “in theory, should be routine. And should be good,” said another source in the election community familiar with the FBI outreach. “But the administration and cabinet secretaries running things have created significant trust issues between federal and state authorities.”
Other sources in the election community told CNN that there was a risk of election officials — or commentators in the media — overreacting and crying wolf over a routine FBI email when there are so many other legitimate concerns over things like the Trump administration’s threats to federalize elections.
Don Palmer, a commissioner at the federal Election Assistance Commission, said the upcoming call with election officials is “an opportunity to introduce points of contact for the midterm election year and share information.”
There was “a wonderful level of familiarity” between federal officials and local and state officials in past election cycles as they worked together on security issues, said Stephen Richer, a former top Republican election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County who faced violent threats for saying the 2020 election was secure.
But now, Richer said, there are probably a “fair number” of election officials who view federal officials as potential “adversaries.”
CNN’s Tierney Sneed contributed to this report.
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