Termination of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
Signed: January 3, 2018
Published: January 8, 2018
Document Number: 2018-00240
📋Summary
This executive order cancels a prior order that created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity and formally ends that commission. It mainly affects the commission itself, its members and staff, and any federal agencies that were supporting its work. The key action is revoking Executive Order 13799 (from May 11, 2017), which removes the commission’s authority to continue operating. It also states that the order does not change existing legal powers of federal agencies, depends on available funding, and does not create new legal rights for the public.
💼Business Impact
This order mainly affects businesses that sell election-related services (voting technology vendors, election cybersecurity firms, data/analytics providers, and government contractors) by ending a federal advisory forum that could have generated recommendations, visibility, and potential follow-on work. There are no new compliance requirements; instead, the opportunity shifts to monitoring and engaging directly with existing agencies (e.g., DHS/CISA, DOJ, EAC) and state/local election offices, where election-integrity initiatives and procurement will continue. Immediate actions: contractors should review pipeline assumptions tied to the Commission, re-target business development toward agency/state programs, and update public affairs/risk messaging to reflect that election-integrity policy direction will come through other channels rather than this Commission.
Full Text
Executive Order 13820 of January 3, 2018
Termination of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1 . Executive Order 13799 of May 11, 2017 (Establishment of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity), is hereby revoked, and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is accordingly terminated.
Sec. 2 . General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party (other than by the United States) against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 3, 2018.