EAC Agenda: Vice President of Engineering, Dominion Voting Systems

FACT / AGENCY AGENDA

On September 8, 2021, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission held a public meeting titled “Moving VVSG 2.0 Forward,” 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern. The official agenda PDF posted on eac.gov lists Panel 1 — Voting System Manufacturers, 1:15–2:15. One line reads: “Nick Ikonomakis - Vice President of Engineering, Dominion Voting Systems.” He is listed with named representatives of Avante, Clear Ballot, ES&S, Hart InterCivic, MicroVote, Smartmatic, Unisyn, and VotingWorks. That is the title this site uses for the engineering job. It comes from that agenda. It does not come from a press paraphrase.

The Federal Register Sunshine Act notice for the meeting (86 FR 48409, document 2021-18729) scheduled the session for that Wednesday and said it would be livestreamed on the EAC YouTube channel. The EAC’s 2021 annual report records that on September 8, 2021, the Commission hosted a virtual public roundtable of that name, with panels of manufacturers, voting-system test labs, and election officials, after the Commissioners had adopted VVSG 2.0 on February 10, 2021. The September 2021 EAC monthly-updates PDF likewise says the meeting was livestreamed to the EAC YouTube channel on September 8.

This site has not located an official written transcript of Ikonomakis’s remarks at that panel. It does not invent a quote. Being listed as a manufacturer representative at a standards meeting is not a finding that he designed, certified, or altered any particular county’s 2020 results. It is not a crime. It is the federal agency printing his name and the Dominion engineering title.

Sources

U.S. Election Assistance Commission. “Public Meeting Agenda.” Wednesday, September 8, 2021. Lists “Nick Ikonomakis - Vice President of Engineering, Dominion Voting Systems.” eac.gov (PDF)

Federal Register. “Sunshine Act Meetings,” 86 FR 48409, document 2021-18729, August 30, 2021. Meeting on Moving VVSG 2.0 Forward, September 8, 2021. federalregister.gov

U.S. Election Assistance Commission. 2021 Annual Report. Records the September 8, 2021, “Moving VVSG 2.0 Forward” roundtable. eac.gov (PDF)

U.S. Election Assistance Commission. “September 2021 EAC Monthly Updates and Events.” Livestream note. eac.gov (PDF)

U.S. Election Assistance Commission YouTube channel, as cited in the Sunshine Act notice. youtube.com/EAC

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

They put the Dominion engineering vice president on a federal panel about the next voting-system standard. His name is on the agenda. His title is on the agenda. That is more than a LinkedIn line. It is also not a confession. Readers can hold both. This file will not turn a VVSG meeting into a steal.