Judicial Watch Sues ODNI for Records on Electronic Voting Machine Vulnerabilities

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for records from an April White House cabinet meeting in which Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard discussed the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (No. 1:25-cv-03526)).

In March 2025, President Trump issued an executive order that included a directive to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to review the security of electronic voting systems. In an April 2025 White House Cabinet meeting Gabbard indicated that voting machines are susceptible to hacking and capable of changing votes.

Judicial Watch sued after the Office of the Director for National Intelligence failed to respond to an April 11, 2025, FOIA request for:

Any records about statements made by Director Gabbard during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in which she stated that: “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast…”

All reports, evidence, assessments, memoranda, and/or briefings prepared by, for, or presented to the ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] (including the National Intelligence Council or any Intelligence Community component) that evaluate the security, integrity, or vulnerabilities of electronic voting systems in the United States, particularly any documents referenced or relied upon by Director Gabbard in making her statements as described above.

Communications of Director Gabbard and ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] personnel or between Director Gabbard (or her designated representative) and the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense relating to the content or preparation of Director Gabbard’s statements.

“Judicial Watch continues to fight for American voters and their right to know how elections are being carried out, which includes evidence of vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. 

Judicial Watch is a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. As part of its work, Judicial Watch assembled a team of highly experienced election law attorneys who stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements.

Judicial Watch recently presented oral arguments to the Supreme Court of the United States in a historic case filed on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors, who were before the court to vindicate their standing to challenge an Illinois law extending Election Day for 14 days beyond the date established by federal law.

Judicial Watch in August 2025 filed a brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, opposing the State of Mississippi’s attempt to overturn the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision, which struck down a law allowing ballots received after Election Day to be counted.

Federal courts for Oregon, California and Illinois have ruled that Judicial Watch’s lawsuits may proceed against those states to force them to clean their voter rolls. 

Judicial Watch announced in May that its work led to the removal of more than five million ineligible names from voter rolls nationwide.

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