PRC Collection of Publicly Available U.S. Presidential Election Information in 2020
A heavily redacted government report describes a PRC-associated subject's collection of publicly available U.S. government information products about the 2020 presidential election.
The visible title frames the document as concerning U.S. presidential election-related intelligence and publicly available information from a U.S. government website. A surviving sentence says a redacted PRC-associated subject collected publicly available information from a redacted U.S. source; the actor, source, and purpose cannot be determined from the visible text.
“Publicly Available Information from U.S. Government Website”
Nature and intended audience of the public products
The visible passage says the collected products included infographics and maps for election officials, interested parties, and voters. Their subjects included mail-in voting, post-election processes, and election-return procedures that varied by state or administrative jurisdiction.
“infographics and maps, which would provide election officials, interested parties, and voters with information for mail-in voting, post-election, and election returns procedures”
The surviving list identifies a mail-in-voting processing map, a 2020 policy-change map related to the COVID-19 epidemic, a safeguards infographic, a post-presidential-election timetable, and material on election-results reporting risks and mitigations. The extensive surrounding redactions prevent determining how the collector used these materials.