Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed that her office took custody of voting machines from Puerto Rico and that those machines are now being held inside a secure ODNI facility for forensic examination.As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Puerto Rico’s June 2024 primary elections were plagued with deeply troubling irregularities:Vote totals reported lower than paper ballot countsSome machines reversed candidate totalsOthers reported zero votes for candidates who clearly received ballotsAt the time, officials brushed off the alarming discrepancies as a mere “software issue,” according to Puerto Rico Election Commission interim president Jessika Padilla-Rivera.Months later, an “exclusive” from Reuters revealed that a team under Gabbard’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence had quietly launched an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting systems.According to Reuters:The sources said the goal was to work with the FBI to investigate claims that Venezuela had hacked voting machines in Puerto Rico, but added the probe did not produce any clear evidence of Venezuelan interference in the U.S. territory’s elections. Reuters first reported the investigation.Gabbard’s office, in a statement to Reuters, confirmed the May investigation but denied a link to Venezuela, saying its focus was on vulnerabilities in the island’s electronic voting systems. Her team took an unspecified number of Puerto Rico’s voting machines and additional copies of data from the machines as part of its investigation, a spokesperson for Gabbard’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence said.A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed that the event in May did happen, but it was not tied to any specific claim of Venezuelan interference, nor was the scope of the investigation specific to foreign interference. However, there was evidence of foreign involvement discovered, but no country was pointed out specifically by our source.Further, authorities in Puerto Rico requested the investigation into the voting systems in the American territory following the “software issues” from the previous elections.Our source did confirm that “ODNI found extremely concerning cyber security and operational deployment practices that pose a significant risk to U.S. elections,” however, that can be said for most black box voting systems with proprietary software and source code.Read more:Reuters Claims Office of DNI Investigated Puerto Rico Election Machines For “Claims That Venezuela Had Hacked Voting Machines” in the U.S. Territory/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i