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JUST IN: Kash Patel Uncovers Plot To Rig 2020 Election With Fake IDs

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June 17, 2025

FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday revealed that, in 2020, Chinese intelligence forces conducted a clandestine plot to sow multiple states with fraudulent ballots, potentially undercutting the results of U.S. elections that year.

Documents from the probe were turned over to Congress shortly before Patel sat for testimony, where he told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that his work with its chair, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), has resulted in “unprecedented transparency” during the investigation.

“Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the people’s Bureau,” Patel told Just the News in a statement. “To that end, we have located documents Chairman Grassley requested, which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election.

At least part of the Chinese plot involved the production of artificial driver’s licenses that could be presented at state government offices by human assets posing as new voters.

“Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots – allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public,” Patel also said.

“In accordance with Chairman Grassley’s request for documents, I have immediately declassified the material and turned the document over to the Chairman for further review.”

Officials who have seen the documents told Just the News that the FBI successfully cultivated a new intelligence source who revealed further details about the plot. They claimed that the fake driver’s licenses were manufactured overseas in the summer of 2020 and were in the process of being shipped to the U.S. so that Chinese citizens living abroad could cast votes in the presidential election.

The intelligence source asserted that the purpose of the plot was to help then-candidate Joe Biden unseat President Donald Trump.

However, FBI officials at the time dismissed the source, saying their credibility needed further vetting despite confirmation by border authorities that they had intercepted as many as 20,000 fake U.S. driver’s licenses in transit.

The election was held in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, scrambling states’ abilities to conduct in-person voting. As a result, all but four states allowed voters to submit mail-in ballots out of concern for contracting the virus inside a polling place.

According to Patel, Chinese citizens participating in the scheme were targeting vulnerabilities in the system, hoping that urgency around conducting the election on time would result in less rigorous auditing of driver’s licenses used to register voters.

Despite mainstream media assertions that voter fraud is rare, high-profile instances have given conservatives ammunition to argue that even a small number of illegal votes cast has the potential to change the outcome of elections.

In May, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton charged a Democratic judge with orchestrating an illegal ballot harvesting scheme to win her election. Earlier that month, a Colorado U.S. postal worker pleaded guilty to trying to steal blank ballots sent to voters and filling them out in their names.

In Arizona, which narrowly went for President Trump last year, the Democratic secretary of state came under heavy fire within her own party after about 100,000 ballots were errantly mailed to the wrong voters.