The Trump administration fired a cybersecurity firm after not finding voter fraud

A crusade against voter fraud has been a major topic in American politics since 2020.

So far, no major scandal involving vote tampering has been uncovered, even though the current administration is desperately trying to find one.

These missing results have led to a cyber firm losing its government contract. Both the company and critics are mortified.

An ill-intended search for proof

In the spring of 2025, people within the Trump administration quietly commissioned the small cybersecurity firm Mojave Research to analyze a voting machine used in Puerto Rico, hoping to find evidence of voter fraud.

Engineers at the company spent six weeks examining the hardware inside a Virginia basement, according to CNN. They discovered serious software vulnerabilities in the equipment.

However, the team found zero evidence that anyone had tampered with the machine or altered any ballots. That factual conclusion did not go over well and immediately triggered friction inside the administration.

Mojave Research CEO Jason Wareham spoke publicly about the surreal ordeal at a cybersecurity conference. Their report failed to deliver the sweeping voter fraud claims that the Trump administration wanted to see. And according to Wareham, people close to Trump began to question the company’s integrity.

Under heavy fire

Instead of fixing the software bugs, Trump’s operatives began attacking the researchers. Officials at the White House pushed false claims that George Soros funded the firm to suppress the truth.

Mojave chief executive Jason Wareham submitted a sworn legal declaration to disprove the rumors. Soon after, White House officials ended the company’s contract with the government.

Key allies of Donald Trump, including attorney Kurt Olsen, continued pushing unproven theories about the 2020 election. According to Wareham, Olsen repeatedly claimed in their meetings that “Maricopa County is a crime scene” without providing valid evidence.

Trying to find evidence despite repeated false claims

Olsen is just one of a handful who have come into Trump’s inner circle after he tried to allege that Joe Biden had cheated his way to victory over Trump in 2020. He has since gotten a bigger role during Trump’s second term.

Mojave’s chief technology officer, Manbir Gulati, is sounding the alarm that this crusade built on false claims about the “stolen” 2020 election is not just a threat to the company, but a threat to American democracy.

“What we encountered [were] a lot of competing factions within the government — people who want the boogeyman to be out there and are willing to do anything to find it and then people who actually do genuinely care about the issue [of election security],” Gulati said. “There was a huge faction that was like, ‘Mojave doesn’t know what they’re doing. They’re dummies and that’s why they can’t find evidence of compromise.’”

This article is made and published by Daniel Wolfram, who may have used AI in the preparation