2026-11-04T06:28:00.180Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
特朗普政府为追查选民欺诈掀起了前所未有的运动，引发了外界对联邦干预选举的广泛担忧，但最终在投票日并未实际行动——这多亏地方选举官员和联邦法院的抵制。
民主党迅速赢得这次选举，选民对唐纳德·特朗普总统发起了全面的中期选举斥责，全国投票站几乎没有出现重大问题。司法部增派的投票监督人员似乎并未造成骚乱；美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）的人员也未被派往投票站；美国邮政局并未拒绝递送邮寄选票。
在周二晚间，特朗普表示不会对将众议院和参议院控制权交给民主党的选举结果提出异议。
就像2020年一样，美国选举体系的 institutional guardrails（制度性保障措施）在很大程度上阻止了特朗普政府推行一些它曾试图实施的极端措施。最高法院在3月叫停了特朗普的行政命令，该命令原本会严重限制各州的邮寄投票；地方选举官员驳斥了司法部的威胁——威胁称非公民投票的相关官员可能面临起诉；联邦法院也否决了司法部在最后一刻试图强迫加利福尼亚州将2万张选票单独计票的企图。
选举专家表示，他们花了数月时间通过桌面演练和对选举工作人员的培训来推演最坏情况，所有这些准备工作帮助确保选举依法进行，任何联邦政府越权的企图都会被迅速制止。
“尽管有大量关于联邦政府可能如何干预、外国对手可能如何干预的担忧和猜测……我们看到选举进行得非常正常，只有小问题出现，”选举创新与研究中心创始人戴维·贝克尔表示。
“这很大程度上要归功于地方和县选举官员的准备工作，他们与州官员一道付出了巨大努力，尽管面临联邦层面的干预企图，”贝克尔补充道，他为两党的地方选举官员提供建议。
选举日并非一帆风顺。纽约州威彻斯特县的选票扫描仪出现“混乱”，延迟了计票；多个州报告了炸弹威胁；还出现了一些孤立的指控，比如选民被错误拒之投票站之外，或投票监督员无法正常进场。但这些都是选举日常见的问题，远未达到一些人所担忧的大范围混乱。
至少在周二选举惨败后不久，特朗普在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，自己“完全愿意”接受中期选举结果。几位 prominent election deniers（ prominent 的否认选举结果者）周二似乎也接受了民主党获胜的结果。
特朗普领导的司法部仍在积极调查关于加利福尼亚州选民名册中存在大量非公民选民的说法，以及阿拉斯加州选票上出现两名叫丹尼尔·沙利文的候选人的问题。特朗普在2020年的选举翻车后采取的许多极端措施，都是在投票日后数周才实施的。
但数月以来，选举官员和民主党议员一直在防范一场他们警告可能出现的宪法危机——如果白宫试图掌控美国投票流程（宪法规定投票流程主要由各州负责），就会扰乱中期选举。
总统及其政府采取了激进措施，还暗示可能进一步行动。
特朗普的官员试图证明总统关于2020年选举被窃取的虚假说法。今年早些时候，联邦调查局（FBI）从佐治亚州富尔顿县查获了2020年的选票；而情报官员对波多黎各的投票机进行了测试，试图证明关于投票机被外国入侵的无根据阴谋论，但未成功。
特朗普在2月表示，共和党应该“国有化”选举，同时他的盟友敦促他动用联邦政府的权力宣布全国紧急状态，接管选举流程，比如阻止某些投票机使用。特朗普的官员多次拒绝排除派遣移民及海关执法局人员或其他执法人员前往投票站的可能性。
投票权组织报告称，周二全国投票站运作顺畅——这归功于长达数月的行动，包括对地方选举官员和法官的培训与教育，确保联邦政府无法越权。
“关于联邦特工在投票站的问题以及诸多其他问题，必须牢记……今天本可能出现截然不同的局面，”无党派良好政府组织“共同事业”的政策主任兼律师安德鲁·瓦尔丘科表示。“我认为我们确实让他们知道，我们在关注事态发展。”
周二全天，全国各地的联邦调查局外勤办公室都设立了指挥所，重点监测需要联邦关注的任何选举问题。一位高级执法消息人士称，虽然出现了少量虚假炸弹威胁和干扰事件，暂时影响了一些投票站，但并无实际重大威胁。
特朗普政府在投票日前为破坏选举采取的措施被法院叫停或被各州拒绝。
特朗普在3月颁布的限制邮寄投票的行政命令本会要求各州将合格选民名单发送给美国邮政局，否则会阻止美国邮政局投递缺席选票。最高法院在9月阻止了该政府实施此命令。
上个月，司法部向加利福尼亚州发送了一份包含2万名选民的名单，声称这些人可能是非公民，要求该州和县官员将这些选民的选票单独封存，并威胁不阻止非公民投票的官员将面临起诉。
但加利福尼亚州选举官员拒绝了这些要求，联邦法院迅速叫停了单独封存选票的行动。
“和全国的美国人一样，我们知道不是联邦政府管理我们的选举，而是各州和县管理，而且加利福尼亚州每一次都做出了回应，”亚裔法律联盟执行主任阿蒂·科利周二对记者表示。该组织与加州共同事业组织一同在加州部署了监督员。
选举期间，社交媒体上仍流传着一些阴谋论。但出人意料的是，长期以来一直放大特朗普关于2020年选举被窃取的虚假说法的共和党全国委员会（RNC），至少帮助驳斥了一项错误说法。
共和党全国委员会的选举诚信团队鼓励选民举报违规行为或潜在欺诈，该团队针对一段引发圣地亚哥选票处理担忧的病毒式视频进行了解释——视频显示选举工作人员将选票装入“无标记的小型货车”，这些工作人员只是在履行职责。
该视频显示工作人员从已满的投票箱中收集选票。共和党全国委员会回应称，其自身的“特别监督员”提醒选举官员注意已满的投票箱，工作人员只是将多余选票运往中央投票点。
“那辆‘无标记货车’呢？”共和党全国委员会的选举诚信账号在X平台的帖子中写道。“那是该县用于运送选票的车辆。”
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Too big to rig? How Trump’s voter fraud crusade crashed into a Blue wave
2026-11-04T06:28:00.180Z / CNN
The Trump administration’s unprecedented crusade to hunt for voter fraud spurred widespread fears of federal election interference but ultimately never materialized on Election Day – thanks to resistance from local election officials and federal courts.
In what quickly became a wave election for Democrats, voters delivered a sweeping midterm rebuke of President Donald Trump, with few issues reported at polls across the country. The Justice Department’s surge of voting monitors seemingly did not lead to disturbances. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were not sent to polling places. The US Postal Service did not refuse to deliver mail-in ballots.
And on Tuesday night, Trump indicated that he would not challenge the results of an election that delivered control of the House and Senate to the Democrats.
Just like in 2020, institutional guardrails of the American electoral system largely blocked the Trump administration from carrying out some of the drastic steps that it pursued. The Supreme Court blocked Trump’s March Executive Order that would have severely restricted states’ mail-in voting. Local election officials brushed off threats from the Justice Department that they could face prosecution over noncitizen voting. And the federal courts rejected the Justice Department’s 11th-hour attempt to force California to segregate 20,000 ballots from being counted.
Election experts who spent months gaming out worst-case scenarios with tabletop exercises and trainings for election workers said that all of the preparation helped ensure the election was carried out lawfully and that any federal government attempts to overstep its authority was quickly halted.
“For all of the handwringing and speculation about how the federal government might interfere, how foreign adversaries might attempt to interfere … we’re seeing elections go very normally with only minor problems,” said David Becker, founder of the Center for Election Innovation & Research.
“It’s largely due to the preparation of those local and county election officials, who worked so hard with their state officials, despite attempts at federal interference,” added Becker, who advises local election officials in both parties.
The day was not without problems. There was a ballot scanner “debacle” in Westchester County, New York, that delayed counting; bomb threats were reported in several states; and various isolated allegations such as voters being incorrectly turned away from the polls or poll watchers not being allowed proper access. But those were all typical issues that tend to arise on Election Day, and nowhere near the widespread chaos that some had feared.
At least in the immediate aftermath of Tuesday’s rout, Trump told the New York Times in an interview that he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results of the midterms. Several prominent election deniers also appeared to be accepting the Democratic wins on Tuesday.
Trump’s Justice Department is still aggressively investigating claims of widespread noncitizen voters on the rolls in California and the two Daniel Sullivans on the ballot in Alaska. Many of the extreme steps Trump took in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election came weeks after Election Day.
But for months, election officials and Democratic lawmakers have been guarding against what they warned could become a constitutional crisis that would upend voting in the midterms if the White House tried to seize control of the US voting process that’s largely delegated to the states in the Constitution.
The president and his administration took aggressive steps – and suggested they might go further.
Trump officials tried to prove the president’s false claims the 2020 election was stolen from him. The FBI seized 2020 ballots from Fulton County in Georgia earlier this year, while intelligence officials tested voting machines from Puerto Rico in an unsuccessful attempt to prove baseless conspiracy theories about voting machines being hacked by foreign adversaries.
Trump said in February Republicans should “nationalize” the elections, while his allies pushed him to use the federal government’s powers to declare a national emergency to take control of the electoral process with steps like blocking certain voting machines from being used. Trump officials repeatedly refused to rule out sending ICE agents or other law enforcement officers to the polls.
Voting rights groups reported smooth operations at polls across the country on Tuesday – crediting the months-long campaign that included trainings and education of local election officials and judges for ensuring that the federal government wasn’t allowed to overstep its authority.
“When it comes to federal agents at the polls and so many other issues, it’s really important to remember … that today could have looked very different,” said Andrew Walchuko, a policy director and counsel at Common Cause, a non-partisan good government group. “I think we really put them on notice that we are watching.”
Throughout Tuesday, FBI field offices across the country operated command posts focused on monitoring any election issues that would require federal attention. While there were a small number of false bomb threats and disruptions that temporarily impacted some polling places, there were no actual significant threats, according to one senior law enforcement source.
Steps the Trump administration took that threatened to disrupt the election in the leadup to Election Day were blocked by the courts or rebuffed by states.
Trump’s March executive order to restrict mail-in voting would have prevented the US Postal Service from mailing absentee ballots unless the states sent USPS its list of eligible voters. The Supreme Court blocked the administration from implementing it in September.
Last month, the Justice Department sent California a list of 20,000 voters it claimed could be noncitizens, demanding the state and county officials segregate those voters’ ballots and threatening prosecution of officials who didn’t stop noncitizen voting.
But California election officials rejected those demands, and the federal courts quickly put a stop to the effort to set the ballots aside.
“Like Americans across the country, we know the federal government does not run our elections. States and counties do. And at every turn, California has pushed back,” Aarti Kohli, executive director of the Asian Law Caucus, which deployed monitors in California with Common Cause-California, told reporters on Tuesday.
Some conspiracy theories still circulated on social media during the election on Tuesday. But in a twist, the Republican National Committee — which long amplified Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election — helped debunk at least one of the incorrect claims.
The RNC’s Election Integrity team, which encouraged voters to flag irregulates or potential fraud, addressed a viral video that raised concerns about ballot handling in San Diego, explaining that election workers filmed loading ballots into an “unmarked minivan” were doing their jobs.
The video showed workers collecting ballots from an overflowing drop box. The RNC responded that its own “special monitors” flagged the full box to election officials and that workers were simply moving the excess ballots to the central voting site.
“And the ‘unmarked van’?” the RNC Election Integrity account wrote in the post on X. “It’s a County vehicle used to transport ballots.”
CNN’s Josh Campbell contributed to this report.