Prez Trump's Election Integrity EO Calls for New Machine Certification. Commissioners should not be purchasing more of the current machines.

Please organize a group in your county to attend your commissioners' meeting to inform them of the President Trump's executive order To Preserve and Protect the Integrity of American Elections and urge them not to make any more purchases of current voting machines until a solution to the 2.0 certification is resolved. You need to get this on the public record. Educate!

Presented to Henderson County Commissioners, Wednesday, April 15, 2025, 9:30AM Meeting

• Our NCEIT (North Carolina Election Integrity Team) county coordinators across NC are reaching out to their county commissioners to encourage them not to purchase new voting machine equipment until the voting machines are either recertified to meet the 2.0 standards or purchased to meet the 2.0 standards as outlined in President Trump’s Executive Order 14248.   Our current machines do not even comply with the Election Assistance Commission 1.0 guideline certification. Our current machines are 20 years old and obsolete.  Any expenditures for voting systems or equipment must be conditioned on certification of compliance with the EAC’s VVSG 2.0+ standards as described in Section 4 (b) (i) and (ii) Executive Order 14248.   All existing certified voting systems must re-certified under amended VVSG 2.0 standards or will be decertified within 180 days.  Compliance with the new standards is contingent upon receiving Federal funding,

  
  

We're just trying to raise awareness, to educate, and to be good stewards of our tax money while securing the vote, We do not want good money spent on bad decisions. 

In President Trump's Executive Order, Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections, Section 4 (b)(i) (states) The Election Assistance Commission shall initiate appropriate action to amend the (VVSG) Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0 and issue other appropriate guidance establishing standards for voting systems to protect election integrity. The amended guidelines and other guidance shall provide that voting systems should not use a ballot in which a vote is contained within a barcode or quick-response code in the vote counting process except where necessary to accommodate individuals with disabilities, and should provide a voter-verifiable paper record to prevent fraud or mistake.

(states) (ii) Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) shall take appropriate action to review and, if appropriate, recertify voting systems under the new standards established under subsection (b)(i) of this section, and to rescind all previous certifications of voting equipment based on prior standards.

Thank you,

 Jane Bilello

218 Vincent Place

 Hendersonville, NC 28739

209 986 3845

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1.  The VVSG guidance from the President is very clear.  No machines will receive federal grant funding if they are not VVSG 2.0+ compliant- to include no barcodes or QR codes are acceptable for verifying the selections (other than for machines being used by disabled voters).

2.  A new standard is to be developed expeditiously that addresses all cybersecurity vulnerabilities- (perhaps a new VVSG 3.0 standard).  This will be the standard all state grantees will need to conform with to receive federal funding.  That standard is likely to be published within 180 days.  None of the NC machines will come close to meeting that standard.  

3.  It will take machine makers 1-2 years to adopt the newly emerging standards and to complete testing in the VSTLs.  Therefore it is likely that federal grant funds will not be allowed for expenditure on machines for the next 2-3 years.

NCEIT most strongly recommend that counties NOT purchase new machines in the interim.  Make the older ones work until federal dollars are available to deploy state of the art, secure tabulators.