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Utah election law currently allows some voting equipment to have wireless communication capabilities and permits ranked-choice voting equipment to be certified under a separate, more flexible standard. This bill would require election officers to ensure that all voting machines, tabulating equipment, and their components cannot communicate wirelessly, exempting only electronic pollbooks used to check in voters, and it would eliminate the separate certification pathway for ranked-choice voting equipment. Once the lieutenant governor selects a new statewide voting equipment system through a competitive purchasing process, local election officers would be barred from acquiring any voting equipment outside that system, and the Voting Equipment Selection Committee's role would shift to helping the lieutenant governor run that procurement process and confirm the chosen equipment meets legal requirements for casting a mechanical ballot. These changes would take effect May 6, 2026.