The Trump administration is planning to go raid voting machines.
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The Bulwark DailySep 29, 2026
The sources show officials, agents and commentators fearing or speculating that the Trump administration could seize voting machines, and they document a January 2026 FBI seizure of 2020 election records in Fulton County. None of them documents a plan to raid voting machines, and the CNN report says the administration has not yet taken such action.
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… And so was he just doing that to say, like, "Oh, I'm kind of doing something," and make the boss happy? Maybe, but they're they're still on this, and so they very much want this pretext so that they can go raid voting machines. Potentially, all these scenarios are still on the table. I'm just saying they don't have the momentum and the buy-in from the public for that fever pitch that we saw in, like, 2020, and they don't even have the guys to execute it, right? …
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Context. Reuters reports that some election officials fear the Trump administration has laid groundwork to seize voting equipment or ballots during the midterms, which describes fear rather than a documented plan.[1]
Context. CNN reports that other Trump allies have called for voting machines to be restricted or banned, but the administration has yet to take such action and likely lacks the authority to do so.[2]
Context. FBI agents privately fear orders to seize voting machines or ballots, according to MS NOW reporting, but the reports describe worries rather than confirmed orders.[3][4]
Context. The FBI seized 2020 election records and ballots from Fulton County, Georgia in January 2026 on a warrant; this is a documented seizure of ballots and records, not of voting machines.[5][6]
Context. DHS and Secretary Mullin have denied plans to widely deploy ICE agents to polling places, saying they would only be there if required by a threat.[2]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 2, 1 tier 3, 3 not rated
- 1How Trump's obsession with ‘rigged' voting machines spread across US governmentreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2The Trump officials who could have the biggest impact in ...cnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 3FBI agents fear Trump will force them to throw Election Day into chaos: reportrawstory.com · tier 3 · cited for: context
- 4FBI Agents Reveal Nightmare Election Day Fearyahoo.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Nine ways the Trump administration could interfere with ...detroitnews.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Seizing ballots would be an illegal attack on ...democracydocket.com · not rated · cited for: context
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