Something Is Wrong in the Machinery of American Elections:

A series of quiet federal shifts now threatens the structural integrity of our electoral system.

“When institutions lose their independence, they lose the nation’s trust — and then the nation itself.”
— James Comey

The visible rituals of voting tell one story.
The hidden machinery tells another.

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Something Is Wrong in the Machinery of American Elections:
A series of quiet federal shifts now threatens the structural integrity of our electoral system.
by Robert J. Rei,
November 17, 2025

Most Americans do not realize it yet, but the ground beneath our election system has begun to shift. Not loudly. Not dramatically. But steadily—through a series of small federal moves that add up to something far more serious than any single headline suggests.

Consider this.

Earlier this year, the administration quietly rewrote the federal voter registration process by mandating “proof of citizenship” documentation. Election officials warned that it would misfire, and they were right: naturalized citizens and long-time voters alike are now being flagged, delayed, or challenged because a passport is expired or a birth certificate cannot be located.

At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security repurposed a massive immigration database—never designed for elections—into a national voter-verification system. These records are known to be stale, mismatched, and incomplete. Yet they are now being used as a basis to investigate, challenge, or remove voters whose only “error” is that the government’s paperwork does not line up neatly.

Then there is the cyber-side. For years, federal agencies helped states defend their election systems from digital intrusion. That support is now evaporating. Programs at CISA that once provided real-time cybersecurity protection have been paused, defunded, or hollowed out. Tools that local election officials relied on simply no longer exist. There was no announcement. No debate. They just went dark.

And while the protective infrastructure is being weakened, the intimidation infrastructure is growing. Federal investigations have been directed at officials who did nothing more than tell the truth about past elections. Others have been accused of corruption for the act of certifying vote totals. This signals to every honest election worker in America: accuracy now carries personal risk.

Meanwhile, the president continues to insist that past elections were stolen—relentlessly, strategically, and without evidence. That rhetoric is not a political argument. It is a destabilizing instrument. It erodes public trust, encourages hostility toward election officials, and primes entire segments of the population to reject any future result that does not match their expectation.

And now, new data is emerging that raises even more questions.
A recent forensic analysis from Election Truth Alliance flagged statistical anomalies in the 2024 vote in North Carolina—including irregularities in machine testing and patterns in the tabulated results that the group argues may warrant full hand-audits. Whether one agrees with their conclusions or not, the fact that independent analysts are raising these alarms at all points to a deeper problem: the protective framework that once ensured public confidence is fraying.

None of these actions alone would command national attention. But taken together, they form a pattern—a quiet, structural weakening of the systems that make elections secure, stable, and trustworthy.

This is not the dramatic kind of election interference that people imagine.
This is the quiet, procedural kind.
The kind that changes outcomes long before the first ballot is cast.

Most Americans have no idea it is happening.
But once they hear it, the response is always the same.

“Really?!”

Yes.
Really.
And it is time to start paying attention.

“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”
— J. Edgar Hoover

And nowhere does that loss surface more quickly than in the systems we trust to count the vote.

So then now that I have your full attention:

For readers who want to explore the data-analysis side of these concerns, Election Truth Alliance has been publishing state-level reports examining irregularities, machine-testing issues, and statistical patterns in recent elections. Their work is highly technical, often forensic in nature, and may be useful for those who want to review the source data themselves.

I strongly recommend subscribing to

Election Truth Alliance

and supporting their important work which has developed greatly since last December—when they first came together to investigate the many discreprencies, irregularities, and any number of other highly questionable activities that have been coming to light across the country since November of 2024.

You can find their reports here:
https://substack.com/@electiontruthalliance/posts

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Thank you for reading.
With quiet vigilance,
A citizen who refuses silence.

Robert J. Rei, November 17, 2025