In a jaw-dropping moment during a high-level Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped a bombshell: there is now evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate election outcomes in the United States.

Gabbard gave a detailed update on her sweeping investigations into the politicization of intelligence and election interference.

Her statement confirmed what many conservatives have long suspected — that the very foundations of America's electoral system have been compromised.

"I've got a long list of things that we're investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them," Gabbard said.

"We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections."

This should not come as a surprise to readers of The Gateway Pundit, who have been following our report.

Even the world's leading hackers concur with this assessment.

Last year, some of the world's top hackers convened in Las Vegas for the annual DEF CON conference, specifically at the Voting Village event, to probe and expose vulnerabilities in voting machines set to be used in the upcoming November election.

From Friday through Sunday, hackers at Voting Village tested various voting machines and related equipment, attempting to bypass security measures.

Harri Hursti, co-founder of Voting Village, noted that the list of vulnerabilities found was extensive but consistent with previous years.

"There's so much basic stuff that should be happening and is not happening, so yes I'm worried about things not being fixed, but they haven't been fixed for a long time, and I'm also angry about it," Hursti told Politico.

Scott Algeier, executive director of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), emphasized that fixing vulnerabilities is not a quick process: "Even if you find a vulnerability next week in a piece of modern equipment that's deployed in the field, there's a challenge in getting the patch and getting the fix out to the state and local elections officials and onto the equipment before the November election."