Report on China-made U.S. driver’s licenses sent to Senate
By Bill Gertz June 17, 2025
EXCEPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The plot involved creating voter identities for Chinese residents in the United States that could be used to vote by fake mail-in ballots in support of Mr. Biden.
The FBI has documents alleging Chinese ties to the production of fraudulent driver’s licenses and fake mail-in ballots intended to be used on behalf of then-presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden in the 2020 election, FBI Director Kash Patel said.
Mr. Patel, in a late Monday post on X, said recently uncovered FBI documents “detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP,” the acronym for the Chinese Communist Party.
“I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over” to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley for further review, he said.
Mr. Patel posted a link to a news report that said an FBI intelligence report had raised concerns Beijing had mass-produced fake American driver’s licenses in a plan to skew the 2020 election with phony mail-in ballots backing Mr. Biden, who won the election that November.
President Trump has long claimed the election he lost was “rigged” against him.
Mr. Patel praised the oversight work of Mr. Grassley and said the FBI is continuing to provide “unprecedented transparency.
The documents supplied to the senator had been requested earlier by Mr. Grassley, he said.
An FBI spokesman told the New York Post the Chinese planned to use the licenses to obtain thousands of mail-in ballots that would benefit the former vice president at the time.
The FBI first learned of the Chinese effort sometime in August 2020. However, intelligence reports were recalled for unspecified reasons, the spokesman said.
In November 2020, Mr. Biden won the closely contested race, taking the swing states of Arizona and Georgia by more than 10,000 and 12,000 votes, respectively. He defeated Mr. Trump in Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes.
Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican, raised concerns in the past about the use of fake driver’s licenses in the 2020 election and reportedly pressed the FBI to investigate further.
The new FBI intelligence report was first reported by Just the News and a link to its story was posted on X by Mr. Patel.
“Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots — allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public,” Mr. Patel was quoted as telling the outlet.
The plot involved creating voter identities for Chinese residents in the United States that could be used to vote by fake mail-in ballots in support of Mr. Biden.
The FBI report was recalled several weeks after it reached FBI headquarters based on concerns about the source of the information, Just the News said.
However, other information about the effort was later gathered by Customs and Border Protection, which was viewed as possible corroboration.
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