The day of reckoning is coming. Election machines must be certified by September or they will not be eligible for use in the 2026 election.
President Trump was ahead of the crowd when he signed the Executive Order on Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections on March 25, 2025.
This order is included in the article below:
BREAKING HUGE: President Trump Issues Executive Order Covering Elections
The landmine embedded in this Executive Order is hidden in in Section 4.d. This provision states:
The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, consistent with applicable law, shall in considering the provision of funding for State or local election offices or administrators through the Homeland Security Grant Programs, 6 U.S.C. 603 et seq., heavily prioritize compliance with the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0 developed by the Election Assistance Commission and completion of testing through the Voting System Test Labs accreditation process.
This all has to be completed within six months of the signing of the Executive Order, per Section 4.b.ii:
(b)(i) The Election Assistance Commission shall initiate appropriate action to amend the 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.
(ii) Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Election Assistance Commission shall take appropriate action to review and, if appropriate, re-certify 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.
This means that the elections systems throughout the country used in US Elections must be in compliance with EAC Version 2.0 guidelines by September 21, 2025.
After the 2020 Election an examination of the Voting System Testing Labs (VSTLs) that were used to certify voting systems throughout the country were not accredited for years. These entities could not certify voting systems if they wanted to.
Here is a list of some of the issues with the election systems and VSTLs used in US elections (taken from The Steal – Volume II: The Impossible Occurs.
- Because VSTLs were not accredited according to EAC guidelines, which many states have codified into their voting regulations, it is likely that many voting machines were not properly certified at the time of the 2020 Election by accredited VSTLs.
- Along with the voting systems across the states not being in compliance with EAC guidelines and state laws where these guidelines have been codified, no one knows how the voting machines and systems are certified in the first place (i.e., what are the activities that VSTLs use to certify voting machines or systems).
- Another point is that not only did the election voting systems not comply with state and EAC guidelines, but the machines also themselves were likely not properly “hardened. From information gathered before and after the 2020 Election, it appears that the voting machines used were not hardened. If they were, they would not have software such as SQL server on them.
It’s highly likely that no states have all of their voting machines properly certified at this time, nor will they have them in compliance with EAC Version 2.0 guidelines by September 21, 2025.
US voting systems, VSTLs and machines that are not in compliance with US regulations by September 21, 2025 will not be able to be used in the upcoming 2026 election.
This will result in a push for simple, transparent, timely and accurate paper ballots and counting for the 2026 election, minus the unsecure and non-compliant systems and machines used in the past.
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