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Trump Meets Tina Peters on Voting-Machine Security Claims

By Drooid · Oct 9, 2026, 1:54 AM UTC · How we work

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U.S. President Donald Trump met with theorist Tina Peters in the Oval Office to discuss voting-machine security.
Peters and Cleta Mitchell urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to invoke a 2019 order to seize voting machines.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed Chinese and Russian components compromise U.S. voting machines.
Legal experts say the commerce secretary lacks authority to seize or regulate state-run voting equipment.

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U.S. President Donald Trump met with theorist Tina Peters in the Oval Office to discuss voting-machine security.
Peters and Cleta Mitchell urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to invoke a 2019 order to seize voting machines.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed Chinese and Russian components compromise U.S. voting machines.
Legal experts say the commerce secretary lacks authority to seize or regulate state-run voting equipment.