FEMA HSGP & Zero-PII Compliance Center
Authoritative architectural documentation explaining why Marigold Insights qualifies as an allowable election security expenditure while completely eliminating federal cloud residency liabilities and simplifying procurement across diverse jurisdictions.
FY26 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) Alignment
Under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) FY 2026 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), State Administrative Agencies (SAAs) are strictly mandated to dedicate a minimum of 3% of their total grant award toward enhancing Election Security as a designated National Priority Area.
If a state fails to demonstrate clear compliance with the 3% election security priority expenditure by the mandatory application deadline, FEMA will withhold 20% of the state's total HSGP grant allocation until compliance is verified. Securing allowable, high-impact election maintenance tools is essential for maintaining full state emergency funding.
Why Marigold Qualifies as an Allowable Expense:
1. Systematic Voter List Maintenance
Provides state and county officials with standardized, probabilistic record linkage algorithms to identify clerical typos, high-density occupancy anomalies, and out-of-state address mismatches without requiring manual spreadsheet sorting.
2. Cybersecurity Threat Prevention
Strengthens local election infrastructure by empowering county authorities to detect data hygiene discrepancies and potential database corruption before official certification cycles.
3. Zero Exfiltration Compliance
Alleviates federal data security concerns by ensuring local municipal records are processed entirely inside client machine memory, preventing unauthorized transmission to third-party vendors.