1. United States
2. Utah
3. Letter

I am writing to express my grave concerns about legislative proposals to "federalize" our election systems. We must maintain the decentralized structure of our republic. The push for universal federal standards is not only a policy error but a violation of our constitutional order. Article I, Section 4 explicitly grants the States the authority to manage the "Times, Places and Manner" of elections. This was a deliberate choice by the Founders to prevent any single federal entity from consolidating power over the very process that seats them. Furthermore, federalizing these systems is inherently undemocratic. It strips local communities of their ability to govern their own voting procedures and places oversight in the hands of distant, unelected bureaucracies. From a security perspective, centralizing control creates a massive, single point of failure that is far easier to exploit than our current decentralized model. I urge you to stand firmly against any mandate that overrides our state’s sovereignty over its own elections. We must protect the 10th Amendment and the legal boundaries that keep our elections secure and local.