CATEGORY 01 · SUPPRESSION
Gaps That Prevent Eligible Citizens From Voting
GAP-001Poison Postcard Purge
SUPPRESSIONDISINFORMATION
Voters mailed postcards that look like junk mail. Non-return = purge. Arizona return rate: 10%. Georgia: barely 1%. Result: 4,776,706 voters wrongly purged before 2024 per EAC data. Wisconsin purged 166,433 — Harris lost the state by 29,397. Pennsylvania purged 360,132 — three times Trump's victory margin.
EAC data · Multiple state records · Nashville PRIDE / SD Voice & Viewpoint analysis
GAP-002Vigilante Voter Challenges
SUPPRESSION
For first time since 1946, self-proclaimed "voter-fraud hunters" challenged 317,886 voters by August 2024. In Georgia alone, challenges exceeded 200,000. One person in Savannah challenged 900 voters. True the Vote projected 2 million challenges by Election Day. No evidence of fraud required to challenge.
NAACP Georgia · True the Vote filings · League of Women Voters tracking (64 anti-voter lawsuits in 2024)
GAP-003Mail Ballot Disqualification
SUPPRESSIONADA WEAPONIZATION
2,121,000 mail-in ballots disqualified for minor clerical errors (postage due, signature mismatch). 585,000 in-person ballots disqualified. 1,216,000 provisional ballots rejected. Black voters 400% more likely to have mail ballot rejected (Washington state audit). Disabled voters use mail at 10 points higher than non-disabled.
EAC data · Washington state audit · MIT Election Lab
GAP-004Registration Rejection Pipeline
SUPPRESSION
3.24 million new registrations rejected or not entered on rolls in time to vote in 2024. SAVE Act would add in-person citizenship proof requirement that 21.3 million citizens can't meet. Election workers face 5-year prison for registering without documents — chilling effect.
EAC · Brennan Center · Campaign Legal Center
GAP-005Polling Place Inaccessibility
SUPPRESSIONADA WEAPONIZATION
73% of polling places non-compliant nationally (GAO 2008). Harris County: 699/701 non-compliant. Chicago: <10% compliant. Detroit: 84% with barriers. Result: 15.3 million disabled eligible voters did not vote in 2022. Self-care disability turnout: 48.1% vs 66% non-disabled.
GAO-08-442T · Houston Chronicle · Chicago Board of Elections · Detroit Disability Power / Carter Center · Census 2024
GAP-006Mail Voting Ban (Proposed)
SUPPRESSIONADA WEAPONIZATION
MEGA Act bans universal mail-in voting in 8 states + DC. Bans "ballot harvesting" by non-family — meaning caregivers, group home staff, disability advocates can't return ballots. Requires mail ballots arrive by Election Day (no postmark grace). Disabled voters' primary voting method eliminated. States that expanded mail voting saw 7-point rise in disabled turnout.
House Administration Committee · Votebeat · MIT Election Lab
GAP-00790-Day Quiet Period Violations
SUPPRESSIONSYSTEM MANIPULATION
NVRA prohibits systematic voter removal within 90 days of election. Virginia purged 1,600 voters within this window in 2024. Supreme Court allowed it on emergency appeal despite federal judge finding it illegal. Alabama purge halted by court. Multiple states violated the 90-day rule with no penalty.
Supreme Court · League of Women Voters · Campaign Legal Center · Al Jazeera
GAP-008Error-Prone Database Matching
SUPPRESSIONSYSTEM MANIPULATION
SAVE system and voter roll matching use flawed criteria. Florida 2000: thousands wrongfully purged on bad matching. MEGA Act requires monthly checks against DHS SAVE database — multiplying false positive opportunities 12x. No single national citizenship database exists. Officials "cobble together" data from DMVs and unreliable federal sources.
NPR · EAC · Campaign Legal Center · Brennan Center
CATEGORY 02 · DATA
Gaps That Expose Voter Personal Information
GAP-009DOJ Suing 24 States for Unredacted Voter Rolls
DATA THEFTPRIVACY VIOLATIONCONFLICT OF INTEREST
DOJ demanding full names, dates of birth, addresses, driver's license numbers, partial SSNs from all voters in 24 states + DC. Michigan refused sensitive data — DOJ sued. Oregon and California dismissed suits. No data protection provisions. Same DOJ enforces voting rights AND demands the data.
NBC News · DOJ litigation records · Michigan SOS · Votebeat
GAP-010SAVE America Act — No Data Usage Restrictions
DATA THEFTPRIVACY VIOLATION
Every state required to submit complete voter registration list to DHS for citizenship verification. Campaign Legal Center: "No restrictions on what the federal government can do with the sensitive data once DHS receives it." No safeguards against forced purges. No audit trail. No deletion timeline.
Campaign Legal Center · CBS News · Votebeat
GAP-011198 Million Voter Records Already Leaked
DATA THEFTPRIVACY VIOLATION
2017: UpGuard discovered publicly exposed RNC voter database with 198 million American records. 2016: Russian hackers accessed 500,000 Illinois voter records via SQL injection. Chicago 1.8M records exposed. Florida credentials exposed. New Hampshire voter registration outsourced to firm with Russian servers.
UpGuard Research · FBI · CISA · SOCRadar · Nextgov
GAP-012No National Cybersecurity Standard for Election Websites
DATA THEFTSYSTEM MANIPULATION
Election websites subject to DDoS (400% increase during 2022 midterms), ransomware (Coffee County GA severed voter registration connection April 2024), phishing (4.6M Illinois records), and SEO poisoning (10,000 sites compromised 2018). No mandatory security standard. Some use free Cloudflare; many don't.
CISA · FBI · Dark Reading · SOCRadar · ReliaQuest
GAP-013Voter Registration Outsourcing to Foreign Entities
DATA THEFTCHAIN OF CUSTODY
New Hampshire contracted voter registration database to small CT firm that offshored work. Forensic investigation found software misconfigured to connect to servers in Russia. Russian engineer oversaw open-source code. Direct foreign access to voter data — not hypothetical, documented.
SOCRadar · Nextgov/FCW
CATEGORY 03 · SYSTEMS
Gaps in Voting Infrastructure Security
GAP-014Voting Machine Software Vulnerabilities — Unpatched
SYSTEM MANIPULATIONCHAIN OF CUSTODY
U of Michigan Professor Halderman found Dominion ballot scanners vulnerable to vote switching and ballot de-anonymization. Georgia refused to update until after 2024 election. DEFCON Voting Village finds "multiple pages" of vulnerabilities annually. Known vulnerabilities, known fixes, not implemented.
Halderman report (unsealed) · DEFCON · NBC News · Votebeat
GAP-015Physical Access by Rogue Officials
SYSTEM MANIPULATIONCHAIN OF CUSTODY
Tina Peters (Mesa County CO clerk): provided unauthorized access to voting system hard drive, copied and posted online. Coffee County GA: Republican official directed outsiders to copy voting system. Voting machine vendors admitted installing remote access software on systems for 6+ years. The real threat is insiders, not hackers.
Colorado prosecution · Coffee County investigation · Votebeat · PBS
GAP-016No Mandatory Post-Election Audit Standard
SYSTEM MANIPULATIONCHAIN OF CUSTODY
MEGA Act requires paper ballots (good) but no mandatory risk-limiting audit. States set their own audit standards. Some states do no meaningful post-election audits at all. Without audits, vulnerabilities in machines and processes can never be detected. CAP estimated $8B needed — unfunded.
Center for American Progress · Verified Voting · EAC
GAP-017Ballot De-Anonymization Vulnerability
SYSTEM MANIPULATIONPRIVACY VIOLATION
Halderman team demonstrated Dominion ballot scanners can un-shuffle ballot information and reveal who cast what votes. Study published August 2024. Dominion developed software patch. Georgia has not implemented it. Secret ballot — the foundation of democracy — technically compromised.
USENIX Security Symposium 2024 · Halderman / U of Michigan
CATEGORY 04 · CONFLICTS
Gaps Where the Enforcer Is the Threat
GAP-018DOJ: Enforcer AND Data Demander
CONFLICT OF INTERESTDATA THEFT
DOJ Civil Rights Division enforces ADA at polling places AND the same DOJ is suing 24 states to obtain unredacted voter rolls. The entity that should protect disabled voter access is simultaneously demanding the personal data of all voters. Entity responsible for remedy is the entity creating the threat.
DOJ litigation · ADA.gov · NBC News
GAP-019DHS: Voter Verifier AND Deportation Agency
CONFLICT OF INTERESTSUPPRESSION
SAVE Act gives DHS citizenship verification authority over all voter rolls. Same DHS under Noem deported a Purple Heart veteran while denying it to Congress. Same DHS sent masked, unidentified agents to arrest students, workers, children with cancer. Naturalized citizens, military families, immigrant communities will not register if DHS controls the database.
Congressional testimony Dec 2025 · NBC News · PBS · Wikipedia/Noem
GAP-020Partisan Secretaries of State Run Purges
CONFLICT OF INTERESTSUPPRESSION
State Secretaries of State — partisan elected officials — control voter roll maintenance. Same officials who benefit from lower opposition turnout decide who gets purged. Georgia's Secretary of State earned Heritage Foundation's #1 "election integrity" ranking by purging 875,000 voters. No independent oversight.
Heritage Foundation · Georgia SOS records · EAC data
GAP-021FBI/CIA Election Intelligence to Trump Lawyer
CONFLICT OF INTERESTSYSTEM MANIPULATION
Trump instructed CIA and spy agencies to provide intelligence about the 2020 election to his former campaign lawyer who led election challenge efforts. Intelligence apparatus directed to serve partisan election claims. FBI raided Georgia election center. Line between election security and election weaponization: erased.
NBC News · PBS · Congressional reporting
GAP-022$200M DHS Ad Contracts to Noem-Connected Firm
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
ProPublica: firm with ties to DHS Secretary Noem received $200 million in DHS ad contracts during government shutdown. Same secretary who would control SAVE voter verification database. Undisclosed $80K from dark money nonprofit into personal company. Failed to disclose on federal ethics filings.
ProPublica June 2025 · ProPublica November 2025 · Wikipedia/Noem
CATEGORY 05 · WEAPONIZATION
Gaps Where Disability Law Is Used Against Disabled Voters
GAP-023ADA Used to Close Polling Places
ADA WEAPONIZATIONSUPPRESSION
NDRN "Blocking the Ballot Box" (2020): jurisdictions close polling places citing ADA non-compliance instead of fixing them. Randolph County GA (majority Black): consultant recommended closing 7 of 9 polling places for ADA reasons. The law meant to protect disabled voters is weaponized to reduce everyone's polling access.
NDRN · Progressive.org · Democracy Docket
GAP-024Church Polling Places — ADA Exempt
ADA WEAPONIZATIONSUPPRESSION
Churches are exempt from ADA access mandates. Christianity Today: 20% of 60,000+ polling places are in churches. That's ~12,000 polling places with no legal obligation to be accessible. Disabled voters assigned to church polling places have no ADA remedy.
Christianity Today · Progressive.org · ADA.gov
GAP-025Curbside Voting = No Secret Ballot
ADA WEAPONIZATIONPRIVACY VIOLATION
When polling places are inaccessible, disabled voters get "curbside voting" — voting outside, in cars, visible to everyone. This eliminates the secret ballot for disabled voters. Los Angeles County sued because curbside voting program itself was inaccessible. The "accommodation" violates the right it's supposed to protect.
DOJ · ADA.gov · DOJ v. Los Angeles County 2023
GAP-026No Disability Impact Assessment for Election Bills
ADA WEAPONIZATIONSUPPRESSION
Neither SAVE Act nor MEGA Act includes disability impact assessment. No committee testimony from disability organizations required. Environmental impact statements are mandatory for building a parking lot. No equivalent for laws affecting 40.2 million disabled voters. Bills add 9 new requirements, 0 new accommodations.
Congressional record · Campaign Legal Center · MEGA Act text · SAVE America Act text
CATEGORY 06 · DISINFO
Gaps Where False Narratives Enable Real Harm
GAP-027Noncitizen Voting Myth vs. Reality
DISINFORMATIONSUPPRESSION
Georgia citizenship audit: 20 noncitizens of 8.2 million (0.00024%). Ohio: 597 of 8.1 million (0.0074%). Minnesota: 3 convictions in 13.4 million ballots (2015-2024). Meanwhile: 4,776,706 legitimate voters wrongly purged. The "solution" causes 8,000x more disenfranchisement than the problem it claims to fix.
Georgia SOS · Ohio SOS · Minnesota study · EAC purge data
GAP-028AI-Generated Deepfakes and Disinformation
DISINFORMATIONSYSTEM MANIPULATION
AI tools create realistic deepfakes to mislead voters. Iranian threat actors sent emails posing as Proud Boys. Russian newspaper claimed Michigan voter data leaked (it was already public). AI enables pro se litigants to file fabricated ADA lawsuits at scale — 40% increase in AI-assisted filings. Judges sanctioning for fabricated citations.
FBI/CISA · SOCRadar · Seyfarth Shaw · Accessible.org
GAP-029"More Registrations Than Population" Claims
DISINFORMATION
NPR: voter roll "deadwood" (people who moved but not yet purged) is normal and legally required. NVRA mandates a multi-election-cycle process before removal. States removed 19 million records between 2020-2022 — the system works. Elon Musk pushed Michigan claims that were demonstrably false. Deadwood ≠ fraud.
NPR · EAC · NVRA requirements · Verified fact-checks
GAP-030DEFCON Vulnerability Theater
DISINFORMATIONSYSTEM MANIPULATION
Annual DEFCON Voting Village finds vulnerabilities in outdated/retired machines in hotel ballroom conditions. Not representative of actual election security. But media coverage fuels conspiracy theories. Real threats (insider access, outsourcing, chain of custody) are "boring" — so they get ignored while theatrical hacking gets headlines.
Elections Group / Jennifer Morrell · Votebeat · CISA
CATEGORY 07 · CUSTODY
Gaps in Who Touches What and When
GAP-031Vendor Remote Access to Voting Machines
CHAIN OF CUSTODYSYSTEM MANIPULATION
Vendor admitted installing remote access software on voting systems for 6+ years before disclosure. Machines not internet-connected by guideline but vendors created workarounds. Third-party access to counting hardware with no public audit trail.
PBS · SOCRadar · Votebeat
GAP-032Election Officials as Attack Vector
CHAIN OF CUSTODYSYSTEM MANIPULATION
Tina Peters proved election officials CAN breach their own systems. Coffee County proved party officials CAN direct outsiders to copy systems. 8 separate incidents across 5 states of Trump supporters attempting to breach voting systems. The chain of custody's weakest link is the people inside it.
Colorado prosecution · Reuters · Votebeat · PBS
GAP-03360 Members of Congress Retiring Before 2026
CHAIN OF CUSTODYCONFLICT OF INTEREST
60 members of Congress (51 House + 9 Senate) not running for re-election — most this century. Officials writing election laws they'll never be subject to. Oversight body evacuating before enforcement. People setting the rules won't face voters again.
Brookings Institution · PBS · NBC News
GAP-034No Independent Election Oversight Body
CHAIN OF CUSTODYCONFLICT OF INTEREST
EAC has "wide-ranging duties" but limited enforcement. DOJ enforces but also demands data. States self-regulate through partisan officials. No independent, non-partisan body has authority to audit the complete election system. FD methodology exists because self-grading systems don't work (KG-14: MIRROR axiom).
EAC charter · HAVA · TOPH KG-14
CATEGORY 08 · EMERGING
Gaps Opening in 2026
GAP-035April 2026 ADA Web Deadline — Mass Non-Compliance
ADA WEAPONIZATIONSUPPRESSION
April 24, 2026: all government websites (50K+ pop) must meet WCAG 2.1 AA. Majority of election websites not compliant. ADA lawsuits up 37%. Expected 5,500+ federal filings in 2026. Demand letters 7-10x that. Election websites will be primary targets. Fix accessibility or face litigation — but $0 allocated.
DOJ Final Rule 2024 · NASCIO · Accessible.org · EcomBack data
GAP-036DHS Shutdown Looming
SYSTEM MANIPULATIONCONFLICT OF INTEREST
DHS funding deadline is this week. Democratic senators refusing to vote for CR. If DHS shuts down, SAVE voter verification system goes dark — but ICE has $75B surge funding to operate for years. The enforcement arm survives. The verification arm dies. Deportation continues, voter protection stops.
PBS · NBC News · Congressional reporting Feb 2026
GAP-037Noem Impeachment Pressure
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Two Republican senators (Tillis, Murkowski) said Noem should go. Democrats introduced impeachment articles. Hakeem Jeffries pushing resignation. This is the person who would run voter verification for all 50 states. Bipartisan no-confidence in the official who'd control the voter database.
PBS · NBC News · Sen. Tillis · Sen. Murkowski statements
GAP-038FBI Raid on Georgia Election Center
SYSTEM MANIPULATIONCONFLICT OF INTEREST
FBI agents raided election center in Fulton County. Sen. Warner asked "Why is Tulsi Gabbard at an FBI raid on an election office?" Trump directed intelligence agencies to investigate 2020 election. Federal law enforcement physically inside state election infrastructure. The fox is in the henhouse.
NBC News · Sen. Warner · Congressional reporting
GAP-039AI-Assisted Mass Voter Challenges
SUPPRESSIONDISINFORMATIONSYSTEM MANIPULATION
Eagle AI (Cleta Mitchell/Trump lawyer) and similar tools use AI to generate mass voter challenges at scale. Pro se ADA litigants using AI to file complaints with fabricated citations. AI lowers barrier to challenge thousands of voters per person. One person challenged 900 voters in Savannah. AI makes it 900,000.
NAACP · Seyfarth Shaw · Accessible.org · League of Women Voters
CATEGORY 09 · STRUCTURAL
The Gaps Nobody Talks About
GAP-040No National Citizen Database
SYSTEM MANIPULATIONSUPPRESSION
There is no single national database of US citizens. The SAVE Act requires citizenship verification against a system that doesn't comprehensively exist. Officials "cobble together" DMV data. 170 million valid passports — under half the population. The verification infrastructure doesn't exist yet but the law requiring it is being written.
NPR · State Department · Brennan Center
GAP-041Election Worker Exodus
SUPPRESSIONCHAIN OF CUSTODY
Reuters documented a series of Trump supporters terrorizing election workers. SAVE Act criminalizes workers who register without documents (5-year prison). Understaffed polls = longer lines = more disabled voters can't wait = suppression. The people who run elections are leaving.
Reuters investigation · Campaign Legal Center · SAVE Act text
GAP-042Provisional Ballot Black Hole
SUPPRESSIONPRIVACY VIOLATION
1,216,000 provisional ballots rejected in 2024. Purged voters offered provisionals as "safety net" but most aren't counted. Disabled voters forced to curbside = provisional = often rejected. No transparent tracking. The "safeguard" is a black hole where votes disappear.
EAC data · Virginia SOS · Campaign Legal Center
GAP-043Married Women Name Mismatch
SUPPRESSION
SAVE Act requires citizenship documents matching registration. Women who change last name after marriage: birth certificate won't match registration. Senate Minority Leader Schumer: law would lead to "massive purges that inevitably remove legitimate American citizens." 34 million marriages per decade = 34 million potential mismatches.
Sen. Schumer · CBS News · Brennan Center
GAP-044The Audit Gap: Nobody Has Ever Counted All the Gaps
SUPPRESSIONDATA THEFTSYSTEM MANIPULATIONCHAIN OF CUSTODYDISINFORMATIONCONFLICT OF INTERESTADA WEAPONIZATIONPRIVACY VIOLATION
This document is the first time all voter system gaps have been cataloged in one place with fraud vector tags. Every gap above is sourced from federal data, court records, or investigative journalism. No entity — GAO, DOJ, EAC, CISA, or any Congressional committee — has ever produced a comprehensive multi-vector gap assessment of the US voter system. This is FD-067B. The first. TriPod LLC.
All sources above · FD methodology · TOPH KG-14 (no system can grade itself)
How the Gaps Chain Together
Each flow shows how individual gaps combine into systemic fraud vectors
FLOW 1 · DATA TO DEPORTATION
SAVE ACT
All voter data → DHS
→
NO USAGE LIMITS
DHS keeps everything
→
ICE ACCESS
Same department
→
CHILLING EFFECT
Naturalized citizens don't register
FLOW 2 · PURGE TO VICTORY
POISON POSTCARD
Look like junk mail
→
1% RETURN RATE
Georgia
→
MASS PURGE
4.78M in 2024
→
MARGIN FLIP
WI: purged 166K, lost by 29K
FLOW 3 · ACCESSIBILITY TO DISENFRANCHISEMENT
73% NON-COMPLIANT
Polling places
→
CURBSIDE = NO SECRET BALLOT
"Accommodation"
→
MAIL = PRIMARY METHOD
Disabled voters
→
MEGA ACT BANS MAIL
Method eliminated
FLOW 4 · INSIDER TO EXPOSURE
ROGUE OFFICIAL
Peters / Coffee Co
→
VENDOR REMOTE ACCESS
6 years undisclosed
→
198M RECORDS LEAKED
RNC database 2017
→
RUSSIAN SERVERS
NH voter system
FLOW 5 · LAW TO SUPPRESSION
ADA NON-COMPLIANCE
34 years
→
CITE ADA TO CLOSE POLLS
Randolph Co GA
→
FEWER POLLING PLACES
Longer lines
→
DISABLED CAN'T WAIT
15.3M don't vote
The actual voter fraud is structural
This assessment documents 44 gaps across 8 fraud vector categories. Every gap is sourced from federal agencies, court records, or major investigative journalism. Not one gap requires a conspiracy theory. Not one requires bad actors in the shadows. The fraud is in the architecture.
The system purged 4,776,706 legitimate voters in 2024 while claiming to fight a noncitizen voting problem measured in dozens per state. The ratio is approximately 8,000 legitimate voters purged for every 1 noncitizen found.
The system exposed 198 million voter records while demanding states hand over SSNs with zero data protection provisions.
The system has 73% polling place non-compliance after 34 years of ADA law while proposing bills that add 9 new requirements and 0 new accommodations.
The system has never been comprehensively audited. Until this document. FD-067B. TriPod LLC. The first complete multi-vector gap assessment of the US voter system ever produced.
THE REAL VOTER FRAUD ISN'T WHO'S VOTING. IT'S WHO CAN'T.
FD-067B · GAP ASSESSMENT · TRIPOD LLC · 44 GAPS · 8 VECTORS · ALL FEDERAL SOURCES
GAO · DOJ · EAC · CISA · FBI · Census · Brennan Center · Campaign Legal Center · MIT Election Lab · Rutgers · Democracy Docket · NASCIO · NDRN · NPR · ProPublica · UpGuard · League of Women Voters
4,776,706 purged · 198M leaked · 15.3M disabled non-voters · 21.3M lack documents · $0 allocated for fixes · 0 system audits ever