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You can't 'vacate' a certification that wasn't valid in the first place. Pro V&V & SLI Gaming weren't lawfully acceditated in 2019. Therefore, vacation isn't necessary. What's req'd is for the EAC to PROVE (which they can't) those vendors were ABLE to certify election systems.
Help America Vote Act, HAVA, was passed in 2002 after the debacle that was Florida in 2000 became
Bush v. Gore.It was HAVA that created the Election Assistance Commission, EAC, that was to have certification AND oversight of electronic voting systems. But the dirty little secret was that back then as the commission was being set up in 2003, few people were thoroughly trained in such systems except people who worked for such companies. So they were essentially checking their own work, not doing an objective analysis.
Further, even when EAC had honest, knowledgeable experts in the field consulting with them, raising alarms about what they were finding, those experts were just ignored. (i.e. Clay Parikh, Halderman, Phil Stark, Harri Hursti, et. al.)
So 2004 election rolls around and many states had switched to electronic voting only nearly all of those were DREs back then. Digital only. I have said before that I am no longer sure W. actually won in 2004 as there was no method to effectively audit the full digital trail.
And the so-called "certified" certifiers, outside companies Pro V&V and SLI were more rinky dink outfits in on the grift funded by federal money in HAVA. It was one hand washes the other which in turn, washes another, wink, wink, nod nod.