Steve Yates to Newsmax: China Threat Demands Voter ID
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By Charlie McCarthy | Friday, 17 July 2026 09:02 AM EDT
The "punctuation mark" in President Donald Trump's prime-time speech to the nation was the need for "simple procedures for voter identification and the sanctity of the ballot," The Heritage Foundation's Steve Yates told Newsmax on Friday.
Appearing on "Wake Up America" with co-hosts Sharla McBride and Marc Lotter, Yates and China expert Gordon Chang said Trump's public accusations against Beijing could mark a turning point in U.S.-China relations while renewing the administration's push for stronger election safeguards.
Yates said the most significant concern is China's alleged access to sensitive voter registration data affecting millions of Americans.
"Two-thirds of all Americans had their sensitive voting data compromised to the People's Republic of China," Yates said, arguing Beijing could combine voter information with previously stolen government records and other personal data to identify individuals vulnerable to influence campaigns.
He referenced China's theft of Office of Personnel Management records and said the combination of multiple databases could enable sophisticated future operations targeting American voters.
"If it wasn't in the 2020 election, the combination of this aggregate data is significantly dangerous for manipulation going forward," Yates said.
"That was the focus of the speech that stood out as the punctuation mark ... you have to have simple procedures for voter identification and the sanctity of the ballot, and that ultimately gets to the bill the president is calling for."
The Trump administration on Thursday released intelligence documents it says support concerns about Chinese efforts to obtain U.S. voter information. Chinese officials have denied interfering in American elections or attempting to influence U.S. voters.
Chang, author of "Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America," said Trump's direct criticism of Beijing was unusual for a U.S. president.
"We haven't heard language like this from a president since [Dwight D.] Eisenhower," Chang said. "That suggests that there could very well be a change in the way the United States deals with China."
Chang also noted Beijing's reluctance to respond directly when asked whether Chinese President Xi Jinping would visit Washington, saying Chinese leaders "hate being called out in public."
Yates emphasized that while the newly released documents do not show China altering vote totals, the broader threat lies in influence operations and exploiting weaknesses in election systems.
"They learned a lot about how to manipulate American human behavior by watching what happened in COVID," he said, arguing that mass mail-in voting during the pandemic exposed vulnerabilities that foreign adversaries could seek to exploit.
He also pointed to a Department of Homeland Security briefing on cybersecurity updates designed to address software vulnerabilities in election systems.
"If our constitutional republic is going to stand," Yates said, "this sanctity of the vote has to get fixed first."
Republicans have made voter identification and election security central priorities this Congress, with Trump continuing to urge Senate passage of the SAVE America Act, while Democrats argue existing safeguards already protect federal elections and have warned the proposal could make voter registration more difficult for some eligible Americans.
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"They learned a lot about how to manipulate American human behavior by watching what happened in COVID," he said, arguing that mass mail-in voting during the pandemic exposed vulnerabilities that foreign adversaries could seek to exploit.
He also pointed to a Department of Homeland Security briefing on cybersecurity updates designed to address software vulnerabilities in election systems.
"If our constitutional republic is going to stand," Yates said, "this sanctity of the vote has to get fixed first."
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