Russia attempted to interfere in 2020 polls: US report

TIL Desk/World/London/ A declassified report by the United States intelligence released stated that Russia and Iran undertook campaigns to influence the 2020 Presidential election, but intelligence agencies found no evidence that foreign actors tried to alter votes or other technical aspects of the voting process.

According to Reports, the two foreign campaigns sought to influence the election for different results — Russia, to promote former US President Donald Trump for the second term at the White House, while Iran went against him — but among five key judgements outlined in the declassified report is that no foreign actor interfered in the 2020 voting process.

A classified version of the report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was presented to Trump, congressional leadership and committees with oversight over intelligence operations on January 7. The report did not state whether it was made available to US President Biden, who had not yet entered office at that time.

“The IC (intelligence community) identified some successful compromises of state and local government networks prior to Election Day — as well as a higher volume of unsuccessful attempts–that we assess were not directed at altering election processes. Some foreign actors, such as Iran and Russia, spread false or inflated claims about alleged compromises of voting systems to undermine public confidence in election processes and results,” the report read.