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《人民日报》：人工智能不是大国的专利

2026年9月16日 09:00 / 联合早报

美国指责中国AI企业对美开展“工业化规模”蒸馏，被点名的包括DeepSeek、Kimi开发商月之暗面、阿里巴巴、MiniMax、阶跃星辰和智谱等。 （路透社档案照）

对于美国指责中国人工智能（AI）企业对美开展“工业化规模”蒸馏，中共中央机关报《人民日报》称，人工智能不是大国的专利，坚决反对美国在AI领域推行科技霸权。

《人民日报》星期三（9月16日）发表署名“钟声”的评论文章，题为《技术问题政治化，美国霸权老套路》。

文章称，美方的指控于事无凭、于法无据，本质是将蒸馏这一业内正常的技术和商业问题政治化、工具化，并在实践中搞双重标准，再次暴露其在人工智能领域推行科技霸权、搞算力垄断、打压竞争的一贯逻辑，中方对此坚决反对。

文章写道，中方鼓励开源开放、合作共享，向包括美企在内的全球企业开放开源模型，为相关模型研发提供便利。美企有关模型研发报告也披露，其大量蒸馏中国模型。按照美方的逻辑，美国企业使用蒸馏便是“行业通行做法”，中国企业运用便是“攻击行为”，这是赤裸裸的双重标准。

文章写道，长期以来，美国个别人工智能企业滥用竞争优势地位，在用户协议中设置宽泛的地域限制等霸王条款，试图将中国等国家的竞争者排除在全球技术生态之外，独占人工智能发展红利。美方不惜动用国家力量维护科技霸权和算力垄断，根源在于对自身技术霸权旁落的深层焦虑，奉行的依然是“只能美国独赢，不能人类共赢”的霸权逻辑。

文章称，人工智能是人类发展的新领域，不是大国的专利，更不应沦为零和博弈的角斗场。当前，全球大模型产业正处于技术迭代、风险迭发、成长发展的关键时期。中美作为人工智能大国，应以积极负责态度处理该领域面临的挑战和风险。

文章最后写道，希望美方与中方相向而行，通过对话和沟通管控风险，共同营造开放、平等、公平、非歧视的人工智能发展环境，推动人工智能技术造福全人类。但如果美方以打击蒸馏为名，实施遏压中国人工智能企业的行动，损害中方正当合法权益，中方必将坚决采取措施予以反制。

综合彭博社和路透社此前报道，美国国家安全局、联邦调查局及网络安全和基础设施安全局上星期二（9月8日）发表联合声明，称中国企业至少从2024年起利用“蒸馏”技术，以“工业化规模”访问美国AI模型并提取信息。

声明点名的企业包括DeepSeek、Kimi开发商月之暗面、阿里巴巴、MiniMax、阶跃星辰和智谱，涉及的美国模型来自Anthropic、OpenAI、Alphabet旗下谷歌和SpaceX。

特朗普政府高层与Anthropic高管视频讨论AI安全

2026年9月16日 10:49 / 联合早报

9月2日，Anthropic联合创始人兼首席算力官布朗（左）出席G20创新部长级会议，与美国商务部长卢特尼克（右）对谈。 （法新社）

美国特朗普政府高级官员星期二（9月15日）与美国知名人工智能（AI）初创公司Anthropic PBC的一名高管会谈，讨论AI的安全风险。

彭博社报道，知情人士透露，Anthropic联合创始人兼首席算力官布朗（Tom Brown）与五角大楼首席技术官迈克尔（Emil Michael）及美国商务部长卢特尼克，进行视频会谈。

Anthropic拒绝对报道置评，白宫也未回应置评请求。

美国战争部一名官员在一份声明中说，战争部“与前沿AI企业保持联系，但对Anthropic的立场并未改变”。

Anthropic与特朗普政府的紧张关系近日再度升温。 9月12日，Anthropic首席执行官阿莫迪（Dario Amodei）发表了一篇3800字的博文，公开呼吁政府加强对AI的监管。他主张放缓最先进AI系统的研发速度，以便研究人员能更充分地评估和理解其潜在威胁。

阿莫迪的提议获得OpenAI首席执行官奥特曼（Sam Altman）和xAI创办人马斯克的支持，但招致总统特朗普的强烈抨击。特朗普说，所谓AI风险是“一个骗局”，并反对出台新规。

布朗近来已跃升为Anthropic在华盛顿的核心代言人。今年夏初开始在华盛顿崭露头角，他亲自牵头与美国官员展开一场至关重要的谈判，并最终成功促使政府解除对Anthropic最先进AI模型的出口管制。

本月初，他还与卢特尼克一同出席一场聚焦科技主题的二十国集团（G20）创新部长级会议，并公开赞扬特朗普对数据中心建设的支持。

另据路透社报道，一名知情者15日透露，英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋将出席特朗普为中国国家主席习近平举行的国宴。

习近平预计下周四（24日）在华盛顿与特朗普会晤。

黄仁勋14日在洛杉矶参加一场科技峰会的会谈时接到特朗普的来电。特朗普在电话中告诉黄仁勋和现场观众，人们对AI与数据中心的担忧，是“蠢民主党人”炮制的骗局；“唯一为此感到高兴的是中国”。

他还说，数据中心是未来20到25年里的“石油”，它的重要性将超越互联网。

DOJ accuses Russian intelligence agents of plotting to murder U.S.-based dissident

September 15, 2026 10:08 PM EDT / CBS News

The Justice Department is accusing several members of Russia’s intelligence services of running a “global assassination network” that targeted Kremlin critics — including one alleged murder plot on U.S. soil over the summer.

Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed an indictment Tuesday against five people who belonged to what they called the “RIS Network,” including a 63-year-old former Russian intelligence colonel named Yuri Khrameev, his son Kirill, two Cubans and one Venezuelan. All five defendants are believed to live in Russia and remain at large, the Justice Department said.

It marks the latest alleged attempt by a U.S. adversary to crack down on dissidents abroad, including in the United States and NATO-allied countries.

One of the murder-for-hire plots took place in July and August of this year, the indictment says. The Venezuelan operative and one of the Cuban operatives allegedly recruited a Brooklyn resident to take photos and videos of two locations associated with an unnamed Russian dissident, promising him $1,000 to $1,500 to carry out the “gravely serious work.” Another $40,000 was offered to “eliminate” or “disappear” the target of the surveillance.

The operatives believed the Russian dissident lived in the Washington, D.C., area, Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters at a briefing Tuesday.

The Brooklyn resident was willing to take photos, the indictment said, but expressed unwillingness to “do the other stuff” — as in, kill the dissident. The operatives then allegedly asked the Brooklyn resident if he knew of anybody else who was interested.

“Let me know as soon as possible because I have a chain and my boss has questions,” one of the Cuban recruiters wrote, according to the indictment. “I have people in Mexico right now and theyre delayed. I only need a response to know if someone can do the work. It doesn’t have to be today or tomorrow just need to know if the[y] can.”

The indictment also accuses Yuri Khrameev (or “Colonel Yuri”) and his son of trying to recruit a U.S. citizen in Lithuania to kill somebody who was ostensibly “telling lies about Russia” last year.

The unnamed U.S. citizen met the younger Khrameev at the Estonia-Russia border, where he was asked to take photos of the target’s address, court papers say.

He was paid $200 for the surveillance. Then, Yuri Khrameev allegedly offered him $25,000 to kill the person because he was “spreading dirt about my country” and “telling the media and the common people that the Russians are the aggressors.”

When the U.S. citizen declined to kill the person, Yuri Khrameev allegedly suggested he could instead get paid to set a warehouse or electrical substation on fire. The Russian intelligence officer said he was interested in targeting pro-Ukrainian countries and was offering “serious money for serious work,” according to the indictment.

Members of the RIS Network were also accused of helping facilitate a pair of failed arson attacks in Europe in 2024, including an attempt to set fire to buses in the Czech Republic and a plot against a Lithuanian facility that supplies radio equipment to Ukraine. Both of those attacks had previously drawn media attention, and Lithuanian and Czech officials blamed Russia.

The indictment accuses one of the Cuban defendants of communicating with associates involved in the Lithuanian and Czech attacks and booking hotels and travel for them.

All five of the defendants were charged with terrorism finance conspiracy, and three of them — Yuri Khrameev and the Cuban and Venezuelan operatives linked to the alleged U.S.-based plot over the summer — were charged with murder-for-hire conspiracy.

The U.S. citizen and Brooklyn resident who were allegedly recruited to conduct surveillance of the Russian operatives’ targets weren’t charged or named in the indictment.

In a statement Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg called the alleged plots “a gross violation of our sovereignty and a threat to our national security.”

“These defendants allegedly operated as part of a global assassination network that reached into the United States, attempting to recruit U.S. citizens and foreigners to carry out killings at the behest of the Kremlin,” Eisenberg said, vowing to “stamp out any foreign intelligence services’ attempt to operate freely in our great Nation.”

CBS News has reached out to the Russian Embassy in D.C. for comment.

The Russian government has long been accused of seeking to kill anti-regime figures, in some cases outside Russia’s borders. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny survived a suspected poisoning by a nerve agent in 2020, before recovering in Germany, voluntarily returning to Russia and dying in prison more than two years ago.

Before then, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in the U.K. in 2018, and KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko died in the U.K. from a radioactive substance in 2006. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration has long denied any role in poisoning critics.

In recent years, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, NATO states have accused Russia of plotting sabotage attacks and other operations in Europe.

American intelligence agencies assessed over the summer that Putin could be increasingly willing to authorize provocative actions on NATO territory that fall short of a war, with the likely goal of testing the alliance’s unity, CBS News has reported. When CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow and met with Russian officials last month, the topics under discussion included a warning not to attack NATO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

Other U.S. adversaries have also been accused of seeking to crack down on dissidents on American soil. Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad has survived multiple alleged murder and kidnapping attempts, and prosecutors have alleged that agents of the Chinese government operated an illegal “police station” in New York City to monitor and harass dissidents.

Iran’s drone hunt escalates as Tehran targets US spy tech to expose battlefield secrets

2026-09-15T20:56:10-04:00 / Fox News

Draganfly CEO Cameron Chell warned that brief access to captured U.S. hardware could give Tehran an “immediate tactical advantage” and puts the U.S. on higher alert

By Emma Bussey Fox News

Published September 15, 2026 8:56pm EDT

Iran launches ‘deliberate’ drone hunts to expose how to evade US defenses, expert warns

Draganfly CEO Cameron Chell warns captured US drones can reveal sensors, tactics and battlefield vulnerabilities.

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Iran is deliberately targeting U.S. naval drones in the Strait of Hormuz to gather intelligence on American surveillance capabilities and learn how to evade U.S. defenses, drone experts warned Tuesday.

Tehran’s strategy is coordinated, they said, and involves exposing critical insights into U.S. Navy theater operations in the world’s most vulnerable maritime choke point even when classified data is uncompromised.

The warning came as tensions escalated in the Gulf region Sept. 14 after the U.S. military destroyed two Iranian small boats amid an attempted seizure by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of an American unmanned surface vessel (USV) patrolling the area, according to reports.

US MILITARY ATTACKS IRAN IN ‘SELF-DEFENSE STRIKES’ OVER WEEKEND

A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 22, 2026.(AP Photo)

Iranian state media initially said the incident was a U.S. strike on civilian fishing vessels while its officials reported search-and-rescue operations off the coast of Kargan and near Larak Island, claiming local fishermen were missing.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins confirmed the attempted seizure on Tuesday.

“Iranian small boats recently attempted to take possession of a U.S. unmanned surface vessel, but they were unsuccessful after CENTCOM forcefully responded,” Hawkins said.

“The surface drone remains under U.S. operational control.”

“What’s going on with drones generally in the Strait right now—when we see all these types of intel capture missions that Iran is launching—we need to make no mistake that these are very coordinated, absolutely deliberate drone capture missions,” Cameron Chell, CEO of U.S. drone manufacturer Draganfly, told Fox News Digital.

PENTAGON JUMPS FROM $225M TO $55B ON DRONES AS CHEAP ATTACKS OVERWHELM US DEFENSES

The Sept. 8 incident involved Iran’s capture of a Dive-LD autonomous underwater drone manufactured by defense contractor Anduril.(IRGC/WANA (West Asia News Agency /Handout via REUTERS)

Chell warned that even a brief examination of a captured drone provides Tehran with a quick win by revealing how the U.S. conducts surveillance and how to counter those systems.

“If Iran captures a drone, it could give them an immediate tactical advantage,” Chell said.

“It may not yield specific classified data, but it gives insight into the theater of operations, which at any given moment offers an advantage. I wouldn’t doubt it for a heartbeat that it is escalating.”

“Just getting little tidbits of intel starts to paint a picture, giving them different attack plans, battle plans, and thoughts on what the U.S. might be doing. I would be very surprised if this wasn’t an ongoing effort.”

WHO CONTROLS THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ RIGHT NOW? HERE’S WHAT THE SHIP TRAFFIC ACTUALLY SHOWS

U.S. Marines aboard USS New Orleans (LPD 18) stand watch in the Arabian Sea during naval blockade operations against Iran. As of today, 44 commercial vessels have been directed to turn around or return to port, according to U.S. Central Command.(U.S. Central Command)

Iran’s attempts to capture drones underscore growing security volatility in the Strait of Hormuz, the vital international shipping lane where commercial transit has fallen below historic levels since the war broke out in February.

Chell emphasized that any access to captured hardware over the last six months would allow Iranian forces to evaluate sensitive onboard sensors.

“It really speaks to the bigger picture of how the whole intelligence infrastructure works of, say, the Navy, for example,” Chell said.

“The other important thing is that when they get their hands on these drones—even if they’re only able to spend some time glimpsing at them before they have to evacuate or abort a mission—is they get a real understanding of the types of sensors on them.”

IRAN SAYS ITS SMALL SUBS DEPLOYED TO STRAIT OF HORMUZ AS EXPERT EXPLAINS THREAT: ‘VULNERABLE TO DETECTION’

Two F/A-18 Super Hornets launch from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of the Operation Epic Fury attack on Iran from an undisclosed location March 3, 2026.(U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters)

“That gives them a complete picture of how they can launch attacks and evade the type of sensing equipment out there,” Chell continued.

“They can understand how to counter or measure the intelligence being gathered, and potentially use that design offensively in their own equipment.”

The latest escalation also follows a Sept. 8 incident involving Iran’s capture of a Dive-LD autonomous underwater drone manufactured by defense contractor Anduril.

While Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey said the drone was designed to operate in “environments too dangerous for humans where capture is an expected possibility.”

“I can’t get into the details, but it provided significant value for months before capture,” Luckey added.

IRAN’S DRONE SWARMS CHALLENGE US AIR DEFENSES AS TROOPS IN MIDDLE EAST FACE RISING THREATS

“Unboxing ceremony by our reverse engineers, tomorrow morning!” Iran’s embassy in Hyderabad also wrote on X.

U.S. Navy representatives however, said the recovered drone was an older model that had malfunctioned and gone dead in the water.

“The U.S. being alert to the fact that these are high-value targets dictates where and how they use and protect them,” Chell noted.

“I don’t doubt that the captured underwater drone had sensitive information on it, but that’s not the point. Again, the point is, they want to see the type of equipment and information being gathered, or view logs to see where it has been. This all just puts the U.S. on higher alert.”

Tehran has previously leveraged captured U.S. assets—including an RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone seized in 2011—to bolster domestic technology and regional propaganda.

Then-President Barack Obama publicly asked Tehran to return the aircraft. Iran later claimed it reverse-engineered the platform to build domestic lookalikes.

In 2022, a U.S. Navy patrol ship and an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter intercepted an Iranian naval vessel attempting to tow a Saildrone surface vessel in the Gulf.

RUSSIA PREPARING HYBRID ATTACKS ON NATO’S EASTERN FLANK, INTELLIGENCE WARNS

Tehran has previously leveraged captured U.S. assets—including an RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone seized in 2011—to bolster domestic technology and regional propaganda.(REUTERS/Sepah News.ir/ Handout)

“Iran actually has a history of attempting this in the past, and at times has been successful,” Chell said, noting Washington takes the threat “very, very seriously.”

“In other instances where they’ve gotten sail ship drones, for example, and tried to bring them into Iranian territory—” Chell said, pointing back to the RQ-170 seizure: “a number of Iranian drones look suspiciously like the RQ line.”

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“Still, when the U.S. knows a drone has been captured, they adjust their tactics and operational overview accordingly,” Chell, whose firm has been awarded a five-year contract by the Government of Canada to provide low-cost tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance uncrewed aircraft systems to the Canadian Armed Forces, concluded.

“There is no question that autonomy and unmanned systems are the new standard in warfare,” Chell said.

Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.

联合国全球风险报告 大规模战争排名升幅最大

2026年9月16日 11:03 / 联合早报

以色列9月10日空袭黎巴嫩的曼苏里村，到处硝烟弥漫。 （法新社）

联合国发布的《2026年全球风险报告》显示，大规模战争在全球风险中的排名迅速攀升。

新华社报道，星期二（9月15日）发布的这份报告说，与2024年首次调查相比，28项全球风险中，大规模战争的排名攀升16位，升幅最大。

36%的受访者认为，大规模战争会在一年内发生，76%的受访者预计将在七年内发生。

排名升幅较大的还有全球金融危机、供应链崩溃、网络空间安全问题。排名跌幅较大的则是生物多样性退化、大范围环境污染和自然资源匮乏。

报告指出，受访者2026年对环境风险的重视程度有所降低。尽管如此，气候变化不作为、自然灾害和自然资源短缺的风险仍被视为较为重要的挑战。

联合国全球风险报告基于对世界各地政府、商界、民间和联合国系统约1300人的调查，邀请受访者对政治、技术、经济、环境、社会五个领域的共28项全球风险的可能性、严重性、紧迫性、多边机构应变准备程度进行评估。

House votes to limit Trump’s power to strike Iran for 3rd time, as 7 Republicans defect

2026-09-15T22:35:00-0400 / CBS News

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Updated on: September 15, 2026 / 10:46 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington— For the third time, the House voted Tuesday to block President Trump from taking further military action against Iran, with seven Republicans breaking with the president.

The vote ended in a 220 to 204 tally, marking a symbolic rebuke of the president over the largely unpopular war.

Tuesday’s resolution drew more GOP support than the previous two efforts to limit Mr. Trump’s war powers in June and July.

Three new Republicans voted yes — Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, plus Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn of Iowa — in addition to the four who supported the prior resolutions: Reps. Tom Barrett of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Warren Davidson of Ohio and Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

It’s unclear whether the Senate plans to take up the measure in its last two scheduled weeks of session before the November elections. A war powers resolution that cleared the House in July has yet to see any movement in the Senate. Both chambers adopted another resolution in June, though the White House has argued against its validity.

The resolution, introduced by Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, directs the president “to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.”

Aug. 28 marked six months since the war began, and the Trump administration has yet to lay out an exit strategy as it seeks tens of billions in additional funding for the conflict that Mr. Trump initially predicted would last four to five weeks. The Pentagon has said Operation Epic Fury — the military’s term for the initial strikes against Iran — ended in May, but the U.S. and Iran have continued to exchange fire for months, and a ceasefire intended to bring the war to an end fell apart in July. Oil shipments from the region are still constrained, keeping global energy prices high.

Mr. Trump has defended his strategy in Iran, arguing the conflict has degraded the country’s military and predicting last week “the war will end immediately after the election.”

Republicans are trying to provide up to $73 billion in new funding for the war through the party-line reconciliation process. The House adopted a budget blueprint in July to initiate the process, but it stalled in the Senate over the inclusion of funding for Mr. Trump’s voting regulations bill known as the SAVE America Act.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released an analysis Tuesday that estimated the war with Iran could cost approximately $2 billion to $3 billion per month for as long as it continues. Between Feb. 28 and Aug. 1, the war is estimated to have directly cost the U.S. about $38 billion.

“The administration has yet to demonstrate that seven months of war have produced a lasting strategic resolution to the threats posed by Iran,” Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said during floor debate Monday night.

美国以色列上周德国秘密会晤阿拉伯国家军事高层

2026年9月16日 11:51 / 联合早报

也门胡塞武装宣传机构9月15日发布的照片，显示与沙特接壤的也门焦夫省，军事车辆遭袭击后不断冒浓烟。 （法新社）

两名以色列官员向美国新闻网站Axios披露，美国和以色列以及多个阿拉伯国家的军事参谋总长上周在德国秘密会晤，讨论了针对伊朗的战争以及中东地区更广泛的紧张局势。

Axios星期二（9月15日）报道，由美国中央司令部司令库珀召集的这次闭门会议，参与国事前均未对外宣布。虽然过去也曾举行类似会议，但这次是自美以与伊朗开战六个多月来，首次举行此类会晤。

与会的中东国家包括沙特阿拉伯、阿拉伯联合酋长国、巴林、科威特、卡塔尔、约旦、埃及。

消息人士说，库珀向与会者做出保证，尽管美军在当地的基地遭到伊朗袭击，但美军绝不会撤出中东地区。同时，他还向与会代表介绍美国旨在保障和扩大霍尔木兹海峡船只通行的计划。

一名以色列官员透露，以色列国防军总参谋长扎米尔向与会各方通报以军多线作战的最新进展。

美国中央司令部发表声明，确认日前在德国主持一场计划内的会议，并与来自八个国家的高级军事将领共同探讨深化中东安全合作的潜在契机。

据悉，以色列和沙特正在美国中央司令部的协助下，探讨以色列如何支持沙特针对也门胡塞武装的军事行动，并参照此前支持阿联酋的模式，提供情报、监视、侦察方面的协助。

UK PM Burnham to meet Trump in New York, The Times reports

By Reuters / September 15, 2026 9:28 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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Sept 15 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to meet United States President Donald Trump for the first time next week in New York, The Times reported on Tuesday, citing a source.

The meeting is expected to take place at the United Nations general assembly, the report said.

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Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

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US Coast Guard boarded a Texas-bound oil tanker to investigate a cyberattack, Bloomberg News reports

2026-09-15 23:33:15 UTC / Reuters

Sept 15 (Reuters) – U.S. military forces and ​FBI agents boarded ‌a Texas-bound oil tanker to investigate ​a cyberattack ​on August 21, Bloomberg ⁠News reported ​on Tuesday, citing ​the U.S. Coast Guard.

Coast Guard personnel and ​the Federal ​Bureau of Investigation boarded ‌the ⁠foreign-flagged vessel following indications its network had been ​compromised ​by ⁠overseas cyber actors, the ​report said, ​citing ⁠a Coast Guard spokesperson.

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Reporting by ⁠Natalia ​Bueno Rebolledo ​in Mexico City; Editing ​by Tom Hogue

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Trump keeps up attacks on mail voting, but election officials more confident

2026-09-15T22:06:30.161Z / Reuters

By Brad Brooks and Nathan Layne

September 15, 2026 10:06 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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Sept 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail-in ballots is unlikely to stop his attacks on voting by mail, voting-rights advocates and election officials said on Tuesday, though they are more ​confident now those efforts will not disrupt November’s midterm elections.

“I was more scared a year ago than I am ‌now,” said Hannah Fried, executive director of All Voting Is Local, a voting-rights advocacy group, after the Supreme Court on Monday blocked Trump’s attempt to impose new restrictions on mail-in ballots that election officials feared would cause chaos in the run-up to the midterms.

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But, she still expected Trump to falsely claim that ​bail-in ballots were vulnerable to widespread fraud, an assertion that election officials and the courts have repeatedly found lacks evidence.

In ​a Truth Social post on Tuesday lashing out at the Supreme Court ruling, Trump said the ⁠U.S. had a “totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-in voting ‘disaster.’”

Trump’s proposed new regulation would have required states to provide voter-specific data and ​use Postal Service-approved mail-ballot envelopes that would be tracked using barcodes. The Postal Service could then refuse to send out ballots that ​did not comply with the new standards or were associated with voters who do not appear on the lists.

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Mail voting is deeply embedded in how Americans cast ballots. Some 47 million people, roughly 32% of the electorate, voted by mail in the 2024 presidential election, according to the U.S. Election Assistance ​Commission. Nationally, mail voting skews Democratic: 37% of Democrats and 24% of Republicans voted by mail in 2024, per the MIT Election ​Data and Science Lab.

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David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research, said Trump’s false claims about mail-in voting have created ‌unnecessary challenges ⁠for local election officials. Still, he noted that this year’s party primaries had all gone smoothly, despite months of attacks on voting by mail.

Asked if he feared Trump’s rhetoric could inject chaos into the electoral process, Becker said “I’m actually rather confident it won’t.”

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Celina Stewart, CEO of the League of Women Voters, said the organization’s staff and volunteers were speaking with voters in all 50 states and that, ​if anything, Trump’s attacks on ​mail-in voting appeared to be ⁠motivating more people to make concrete plans to cast a ballot, whether by mail or in person.

Matt Dole, a Republican strategist in Ohio, said that despite Trump’s rhetoric on the issue, he did not ​anticipate widespread claims of fraud in the midterms.

Lisa Brown, clerk of Michigan’s Oakland County, the chief ​election administrator, said ⁠voters’ main worry was simply whether mail voting would remain an option, not its legitimacy.

Asked whether she was concerned Trump had laid the groundwork to claim fraud in November should his party lose control of one or both chambers of Congress, Brown noted that his previous allegations ⁠were never ​substantiated.

“He made claims of fraud in 2020. There was never any proof of ​that. That election was accurate, secure, and fair,” she said. “He can make whatever claims he wants. It doesn’t change how secure and accurate our process is.”

Reporting by ​Nathan Layne in Michigan and Brad Brooks in Colorado; Additional reporting by Andy Sullivan in Washington; Editing by Ross Colvin and Daniel Wallis

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