“Certification programs are a quality assurance process that ensures manufacturers adhere to certain guidelines regarding design, safety, accuracy, fault tolerance, etc….Voting system regulations are delegated to the state level, and while election tampering remains a crime, certification programs are poorly equipped to catch deliberate design flaws.”
States with no regulations or requirements for their electronic voting machines that were won by Republicans in the 2016 Presidential Election:
Alaska
Arkansas
Florida
Kansas
Michigan
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Tennessee
West Virginia
States with no regulations or requirements for their electronic voting machines that were won by Democrats in the 2016 Presidential Election:
Hawaii
Maine
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Vermont
“On June 25, 2013, the United States Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional to use the coverage formula in Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act to determine which jurisdictions are subject to the preclearance requirement of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612 (2013). The Supreme Court did not rule on the constitutionality of Section 5 itself. The effect of the Shelby County decision is that the jurisdictions identified by the coverage formula in Section 4(b) no longer need to seek preclearance for the new voting changes, unless they are covered by a separate court order entered under Section 3(c) of the Voting Rights Act.”
States with jurisdictions that were covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act that were won by Republicans in the 2016 Presidential Election:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Virginia
States with jurisdictions that were covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act that were won by Democrats in the 2016 Presidential Election:
California
New York
Source:
eac.gov [State Requirements and the Federal Voting System Testing and Certification Program, PDF]