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WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A team working for President Donald Trumpβs spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Ricoβs voting machines, said Gabbardβs office and three sources familiar with the previously unreported events.
The sources said the goal was to work with the FBI to investigate claims that Venezuela had hacked voting machines in Puerto Rico, but added the probe did not produce any clear evidence of Venezuelan interference in the U.S. territoryβs elections.
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Gabbardβs office, in a statement to Reuters, confirmed the May investigation but denied a link to Venezuela, saying its focus was on vulnerabilities in the islandβs electronic voting systems. Her team took an unspecified number of Puerto Ricoβs voting machines and additional copies of data from the machines as part of its investigation, a spokesperson for Gabbardβs Office of the Director
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