Months before the midterms, the only federal agency dedicated solely to election administration is now unable to do anything.

Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules.

The two Democratic commissioners, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, were notified by email. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email said. It was signed by Morgan DeWitt Snow, deputy director of presidential personnel in the Executive Office of the President.

The third commissioner, Republican Christy McCormick, was allowed to resign, according to three sources within the agency. McCormick declined to comment when reached by phone. The agency’s fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, voluntarily departed the agency earlier this year to join the Heritage Foundation.

  • mako@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    I saw you insult someone else in this thread for no reason - “You and your comment are stupid because I know what’s really important to comment about.” It’s clear that you’re angry and impotent, and spreading the former paradoxically makes you feel a little less of the latter. You’re not helping anyone or anything, including yourself. And giving yourself an arbitrary 2.5 year deadline to pretend that you’ll ever do more than insult and complain and regurgitate the same articles we’re all reading in this same bubble like you’re the one who really gets it is sad. You complain and insult online today, and that’s what you’ll do every day up to, including, and after Inauguration Day 2029. It’s as ON as it’s ever going to be for you.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      “You and your comment are stupid because I know what’s really important to comment about.”

      You’re one of those weak minded people who can’t argue the merits of an issue, so you INVENT a quote that I never said, and try to force me to defend it. Not gonna happen.

      You don’t know me at all. I have vulnerable people in my life that depend on me, and if MAGA were to do anything to them, I would have nothing to lose, and I would become very dangerous. I am not alone in this. Maybe YOU can’t envision a potential future America that isn’t a Nazi America, but I can see it very clearly, and I don’t intend to be a bystander, like you.