diff --git a/voting_schemes/electionguard/docker/pyodide-electionguard/packages/libgmp/Makefile b/voting_schemes/electionguard/docker/pyodide-electionguard/packages/libgmp/Makefile
index f0fb0d18..a46cdb4f 100644
--- a/voting_schemes/electionguard/docker/pyodide-electionguard/packages/libgmp/Makefile
+++ b/voting_schemes/electionguard/docker/pyodide-electionguard/packages/libgmp/Makefile
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ clean:
 
 $(TARBALL):
 	[ -d $(ROOT)/downloads ] || mkdir $(ROOT)/downloads
-	# probably the original docker with pyodide 0.16.1 has a builtin wget with old certificates and 
-	# the download fails when checking for it in the gmplib.org site
-	wget --no-check-certificate -v -O $@ $(URL)
+	wget -v -O $@ $(URL)
 	sha256sum --quiet --check checksums || (rm $@; false)