Fact checking Trump speech on election security

CBS News is fact-checking President Trump's code connected predetermination security Thursday night, successful which helium raised new allegations regarding China's entree to U.S. elector information and claimed that the "deep state" successful the U.S. quality assemblage sought to "actively suppress and downplay" China's actions. He besides made accusations astir elector registration fraud successful the U.S.

Here are immoderate of the claims and CBS News' ratings and discourse for Mr. Trump's statements:

False: Trump claims U.S. predetermination strategy "falls catastrophically short" of modular wherever "cheating and interference are not conscionable difficult, but virtually impossible." 

President Trump: "Every American deserves to cognize that erstwhile they formed their vote, that ballot volition beryllium counted accurately successful a system, and that is to marque that strategy unafraid — 1 wherever cheating and interference are not conscionable difficult, but virtually impossible. Unfortunately, the strategy we person contiguous falls catastrophically abbreviated of that standard." 

Details: 

• Officials person repeatedly said predetermination infrastructure remains secure.
• The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, oregon CISA, said determination was "no grounds of immoderate malicious activity" affecting the integrity of the 2024 elections. CISA besides said the 2020 predetermination was "the astir unafraid successful American history," with nary grounds that voting systems deleted, mislaid oregon compromised votes. 
• Georgia and Pennsylvania conducted audits of the 2024 wide predetermination and officials successful some states confirmed the accuracy of predetermination results. 

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Exaggerated: Trump claims "hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dormant people" are "active connected the elector rolls"

"Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dormant radical are listed and progressive connected the elector rolls."

Details: 

• Election experts accidental votes formed connected behalf of "dead people" are highly rare, and the numbers are improbable to impact the result of an election. 
• For instance, the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced successful April that it had identified "34,000 deceased individuals" connected the state's elector rolls. But the committee besides said that this "does not needfully bespeak that amerciable votes were formed successful their names."
• Under precise circumstantial circumstances, however, immoderate states volition number the ballot of a idiosyncratic who has died. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 10 states number an absentee ballot formed by a elector who died earlier Election Day, and Connecticut volition number a deceased voter's ballot if the idiosyncratic was a subordinate of the equipped services.
• Michigan and 11 different states explicitly prohibit counting the votes of deceased individuals, "even if the elector formed an absentee ballot and past died earlier Election Day," according to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
• Colorado, Kansas and New York lone let counting a deceased individual's ballot if an probe proves that the elector had formed a ballot and aboriginal died earlier Election Day.
• The improvement of non-citizens voting successful U.S. elections is simply a uncommon occurrence and improbable to alteration the result of an election. The Center for Election Innovation & Research concluded that non-citizens voting successful U.S. elections "arise from misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, oregon outright fabrications" and erstwhile an probe by an idiosyncratic state's caput of authorities is concluded, "the fig of alleged instances falls drastically."
• Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate revealed successful March 2025 that the authorities had estimated 2,186 non-citizens registered to vote. But aft a statewide audit, the fig dropped to "277 confirmed non-citizens." Of those, lone 35 voted successful the 2024 election.