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Utah election law currently allows some voting equipment to have wireless communication capabilities, but this bill requires election officers to ensure that all voting machines, tabulating equipment, and their components are incapable of wireless communication — with the exception of electronic pollbooks, which are the devices poll workers use to check in voters. The bill also removes an existing provision that allowed ranked-choice voting equipment to be certified under a separate, more flexible standard, requires local election officers to use only voting equipment that is part of the system selected through a statewide procurement process led by the lieutenant governor, and directs the Voting Equipment Selection Committee to assist the lieutenant governor in running that competitive purchasing process and verifying that new equipment meets state requirements. Counties and municipalities are most directly affected, as they lose the ability to independently acquire voting equipment outside the statewide system and must update any currently used equipment that has wireless capabilities.