The motherboards for voting machines are manufactured in a factory 60 miles outside of Beijing.
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Ask Dr. DrewOct 21, 2026
Authoritative and independent sources confirm that voting machine vendors use some Chinese-made components, but none of them mentions a motherboard factory 60 miles outside Beijing. The only source with that specific detail is an unrated X document that repeats the post's framing, so the location claim cannot be checked and the verdict is unverifiable as of 2026-10-21.
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… But even the hardware, which allegedly comes from Taiwan, the most important piece of the hardware is the motherboard. It's like the frontal lobe of your brain. That motherboard comes from a factory 60 miles outside of Beijing. It gets to Taiwan, in another warehouse, there's a switcheroo. It ends up as the core system, and the Chinese even have a chance they and the chance to and they do rewrite the basic input output system, called the IOC. Is the firmware. …
Ask Dr. Drew · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. Votebeat (October 2026) reports that the three major voting technology companies all confirmed they use some Chinese parts, but says they cannot domestically source all components. This supports the general premise of Chinese-made parts, not the specific factory location.[3]
Context. Congressional hearing testimony and RAND reporting describe Chinese-manufactured components in US voting machines, but do not name a motherboard factory or its distance from Beijing.[2][4]
Context. Reuters (May 2026) reports that a teardown of Puerto Rico voting machines found one China-packaged Intel chip, which is not generally considered a security threat, and other chips from Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. This concerns chip packaging, not a motherboard factory near Beijing.[1]
Context. The only source that states the 60-mile-outside-Beijing factory detail is an unrated X document (Declassification Summary). It repeats the claim's framing without independent records, so it cannot corroborate the claim.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 3 not rated
- 1Trump official tried to ban half of US voting machines, citing ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 22020 ELECTION SECURITY--PERSPECTIVES FROM VOTING SYSTEM VENDORS AND EXPERTScongress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Do Chinese-made parts pose a threat to U.S. voting machines ...votebeat.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Securing U.S. Elections Against Cyber Threats: Considerations for Supply Chain Risk Managementrand.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Election Interference By The Chinese, Cuban, and ...x.com · not rated · cited for: context
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