Jon Capps Issues Statement on Election Integrity: Calls for One-Day, Hand-Counted Voting

As an Army veteran, business leader, and certified IT systems architect with decades of experience—including Microsoft certifications—I know firsthand how technology works and where it fails. That’s why I fully support President Trump’s call to end mass mail-in voting and to eliminate the use of electronic voting machines in tabulating election results.

Our elections must be citizen-verifiable, precinct-based, and hand-counted on Election Day. That is the only way to ensure transparency, accountability, and trust.

The truth is, not a single voting system currently used in America meets the federal VVSG 2.0 standards for security. Nebraska's are still certified under outdated standards written before 2005. Many of these machines rely on SQL databases, which are fundamentally insecure for election use because they can be manipulated, altered, or corrupted without detection. That makes them uncertifiable by today’s standards.

As someone who has designed and audited complex IT systems for some of the largest institutions in the world, I can tell you: no critical infrastructure should ever be run on outdated standards, black-box software, or unverifiable machines—especially not our elections.

The people of Nebraska, and Americans everywhere, deserve elections they can see and trust. One day. One vote. Hand-counted. Citizen-verifiable. That’s how we safeguard our Republic.