Exclusive: Trump administration blocking appointments to key panel overseeing voting machines, officials say

Chicago — Election officials across the country this week voiced concerns that the Trump administration is blocking appointments to a key federal committee that helps create standards for voting equipment used in U.S. elections.

The unexplained rejections are keeping qualified experts in the creation of secure and accessible voting equipment off the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) — a body made up of technical experts and federal officials that helps develop guidelines to certify voting equipment.

That could ultimately lead to the certification of voting machines that shouldn’t be in use — because they’re vulnerable to security breaches, inaccessible for certain types of voters, or otherwise flawed. And it represents the latest Trump administration bid to assert control over elections.

The rejections come at a time when federal election officials are struggling to formally implement parts of President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order, which demanded changes to voting machine standards.



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