发布于2026年2月4日，美国东部时间晚上11:33 / 美国有线电视新闻网
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美国国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德在2025年12月2日于华盛顿特区白宫举行的内阁会议上，聆听唐纳德·特朗普总统发言。
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国家情报总监办公室在周三向美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）发表的声明中表示，其已从波多黎各获取投票机并对其安全漏洞进行了调查。
这一非同寻常的举动发生在国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德应总统唐纳德·特朗普的要求，展开更广泛的选民欺诈调查之际。特朗普曾虚假声称2020年大选存在舞弊，尽管有无数法院裁决和审计报告驳斥了这一说法。上周，加巴德在场见证了联邦调查局特工在佐治亚州富尔顿县执行与2020年大选相关的搜查令。
国家情报总监办公室在声明中称，发现波多黎各的投票机存在“极其令人担忧”的网络安全和操作部署问题，但未提供证据。
国家情报总监办公室发言人表示，波多黎各美国检察官、国土安全调查局特工和联邦调查局监督特别探员“协助电子投票硬件和软件自愿移交给国家情报总监办公室进行分析”。目前尚不清楚该机构何时收到并研究了这些投票机。
国家情报总监办公室在为调查投票设备进行辩解时称，其依据是“公开报道的关于波多黎各选举的声明，称其电子投票系统存在差异和系统性异常”。
一个与选举官员合作的无党派非营利组织执行董事大卫·贝克尔告诉CNN，投票机会接受定期测试，并有严格的保管链。这些机器统计纸质选票，而纸质选票会经过审计和重新计票以确认机器计数。他表示，这些都是已被证明有效的安全控制措施。
前情报官员和选举专家告诉CNN，国家情报总监负责协调美国情报界17个其他组织的情报工作。而国家情报总监办公室在选举基础设施中发挥如此直接的作用，这是前所未有的。
“这远远超出了国家情报总监办公室的权限和专业能力范围，”一位曾参与选举安全工作的美国前高级情报官员周三在回应国家情报总监办公室的声明时告诉CNN，“这简直是业余行为。”
贝克尔告诉CNN，国家情报总监办公室在波多黎各的活动“似乎旨在恐吓和诋毁选举官员，以及不断以起诉相威胁，并反复谎称我们的选举系统”。
路透社首先报道了国家情报总监办公室对波多黎各的调查，并表示该活动发生在去年春季。
目前尚不清楚国家情报总监办公室何时以及是否会就其对波多黎各投票设备的调查发布更多公开信息。国家情报总监办公室发言人表示，该机构“目前正在与美国政府各部门的合作伙伴协调，以向能够采取行动改进我们系统安全性的机构提供调查结果”。
美国有线电视新闻网已请求波多黎各选举官员发表评论。
Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard’s office obtained and tested voting machines in Puerto Rico
Published Feb 4, 2026, 11:33 PM ET / CNN
By Sean Lyngaas
2 hr ago
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet Meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on December 2, 2025.
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence obtained voting machines from Puerto Rico and probed them for security vulnerabilities, the office said in a statement to CNN Wednesday.
The extraordinary move comes amid Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s broader search for voter fraud at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has falsely claimed that the 2020 election was rigged despite numerous court rulings and audits debunking the claim. Gabbard was present as FBI agents executed a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia, last week related to the 2020 election.
The ODNI claimed in its statement to have found “extremely concerning” cybersecurity and operational deployment practices with the voting machines in Puerto Rico but did not provide evidence.
The US attorney in Puerto Rico, Homeland Security Investigations agents and an FBI supervisory special agent “facilitated the voluntary turnover of electronic voting hardware and software to ODNI for analysis,” an ODNI spokesperson said. It’s unclear exactly when the agency received and studied the voting machines.
In justifying the voting equipment probe, the ODNI cited “publicly reported claims relating to elections in Puerto Rico alleging discrepancies and systemic anomalies in their electronic voting systems.”
David Becker, the executive director of a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works with election officials, told CNN that voting machines are subject to regular testing and a strict chain of custody. The machines count paper ballots that are audited and recounted to confirm the machine counts. Those are all security controls that have proven effective, he said.
The director of national intelligence coordinates intelligence from across the 17 other organizations in the US intelligence community. It is unprecedented for the ODNI to play such a hands-on role in election infrastructure, former intelligence officials and election experts told CNN.
“This is well beyond what ODNI has the authority or expertise to do,” a former senior US intelligence official who has worked on election security told CNN Wednesday in reaction to the ODNI statement. “This is amateur hour.”
The ODNI activity in Puerto Rico “appears intended to intimidate and denigrate election officials, along with the constant threats of prosecutions, and the repeated lies about our election system,” Becker told CNN.
Reuters first reported ODNI’s probe in Puerto Rico and said the activity took place last spring.
It was not clear if and when ODNI would release more public information on its probe of voting equipment in Puerto Rico. The agency “is currently coordinating with our partners across the U.S. government to provide the findings from our inquiry to agencies that can take actions to improve the security of our system,” the ODNI spokesperson said.
CNN has requested comment from election officials in Puerto Rico.
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