The Trump administration requested CISA to hack a voting machine to identify vulnerabilities and report them to the White House without informing the vendor.

Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on (ProPublica) https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump http://www.techmeme.com/261019/p29#a261019p29

NEW: DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends. https://propub.li/3UBiqMO

DHS officials asked CISA to secretly hack voting machine Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security asked CISA to secretly acquire and hack a voting machine, according to a new…... https://itnerd.blog/2026/10/21/dhs-officials-asked-cisa-to-secretly-hack-voting-machine/