A Puerto Rico voting-machine analysis found no hacked machines and no altered votes, according to Mojave Research chief executive Jason Wareham, whose firm carried out the review. In a statement circulated Tuesday, Wareham said the examination of the island's equipment had turned up no sign that votes were changed, and he confirmed that his findings were later briefed to White House officials.
Reuters reported that the work grew out of a broader federal effort to hunt for evidence that the 2020 election was rigged. That effort, led by attorney Kurt Olsen, examined voting equipment in Puerto Rico and pursued claims of foreign interference in the 2020 contest, according to the outlet. It concluded there was no evidence votes were altered.
The reaction to those findings unfolded across several accounts Tuesday, with conservative commentators and administration critics picking up different pieces of the story and pulling them in opposite directions.
The Heritage Foundation's account, @Heritage, used the same news cycle to spotlight a different subject entirely: a White House event celebrating Hispanic voters. "Hispanics Still Reject Socialism, and Yesterday's White House Celebration Proved It," the account posted, tagging @pedrobrodrigue7. The post framed the celebration as evidence of a durable shift among Hispanic voters away from socialist politics.
The two threads — the Puerto Rico review and the White House event — converged in the broader conversation about how the administration is spending its political capital, and how its opponents say it is spending taxpayer money.
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, posting as @CREWcrew, argued that Congress has failed in its oversight role. "Congress is supposed to serve as a check on misuse of taxpayer funds, like we're seeing with the White House's pro-Trump propaganda ads," the account posted. "But so far they've failed to act." The group did not elaborate on which advertisements it was referring to, and the post did not address the Puerto Rico findings directly.
Immigration enforcement was also part of the day's mix. The account @GuntherEagleman seized on a new House Judiciary Committee report on detainer requests, writing that Illinois had refused to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. "ICE asked for them. Illinois said NO," the post read. "Illinois let more than 500 criminal illegal aliens walk free even though ICE asked to take them. That comes from a new House Judiciary report. In 2025, Cook County released 408 of them and handed exactly zero to ICE. Illinois prisons let" — the post ended there, cut off mid-sentence. The figures and the characterization of the detainees come from the account and the committee report it cites; Next News Network has not independently reviewed that report.
Also Tuesday, NBC News reported that the National Capital Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve building plans for a new White House Visitor Screening Facility. The vote is a routine planning matter, but it landed in the same news window as the election-review story and the debate over White House spending.
Reuters had reported earlier that the election review was conducted by a team of United States government computer experts. According to that account, the team shuttled between a warehouse in Puerto Rico and the headquarters of the island's election commission in June 2025. Their assignment was to examine voting equipment as part of the broader inquiry into 2020 election claims.
Wareham's statement marked the public conclusion of that piece of the review. His firm, Mojave Research, characterized the results in blunt terms: no hacked machines, no altered votes. The same conclusions were later presented to White House officials, according to Wareham's account.
Kurt Olsen, the attorney associated with the effort, has not issued a public statement responding to the Wareham findings. The White House has not publicly detailed what was discussed in the briefing or what conclusions, if any, officials drew from it. It is not yet known whether the Puerto Rico review will be formally released in full, what its complete methodology was, or which specific systems were examined.
What is clear is the sequence of the public conversation. The election-review findings emerged first. Heritage then amplified a separate White House story about Hispanic voters and socialism. CREW countered with an argument about congressional oversight and White House advertising. GuntherEagleman pushed the immigration detainer report. NBC News covered the planning vote. Each account carried its own piece of the day, and each piece drew its own audience.
The Puerto Rico findings carry particular weight because they sit at the center of a years-long dispute. Claims that voting machines were compromised in 2020 have circulated widely since the election, and the federal review that examined Puerto Rico equipment was one of the more concrete attempts to test those claims against physical hardware. The result, as described by the man who ran the analysis, was a negative: the machines were not hacked, and the votes were not altered.
That conclusion is now being received in a political environment where the same accounts are simultaneously arguing about immigration enforcement, taxpayer-funded advertising and Hispanic voter outreach. How much the Puerto Rico finding reshapes the larger debate is an open question. So far, the accounts carrying it have treated it as one data point among several, rather than as a final verdict on the 2020 election claims that prompted the review in the first place.
Next News Network could not independently verify the claims made in the posts, the findings described by Wareham, or the contents of the House Judiciary report cited in the immigration post.
Our Take
The Puerto Rico review was supposed to be the moment when the loudest claims about 2020 voting machines met actual hardware, and by its own author's account, it came up empty. That does not end the debate, and no honest observer should pretend it does. But it does mean the burden now sits squarely on anyone still asserting these machines were compromised: show the evidence, or stop asking the rest of us to treat suspicion as proof.
What stands out more is how quickly the story was absorbed into everything else. Heritage moved to Hispanic voters and socialism, CREW moved to congressional oversight and White House advertising, GuntherEagleman moved to Illinois and ICE detainers, and NBC News moved to a planning vote. That is not a conspiracy; it is how Washington processes an inconvenient finding — by changing the subject fast enough that nobody has to sit with it. Conservatives should be the first to insist that when a claim is tested and fails, the movement says so out loud. Otherwise the next real case of election misconduct will be greeted with the same eye-roll that this episode has now earned for the last one.
