Trump Ousts Members of Bipartisan Federal Election Commission
The move could stall federal grants and voting-system testing months before midterm elections, according to the White House and VoteBeat.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump removed Democratic Election Assistance Commission members Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland after they resisted his push to require citizenship documentation on voter registration forms.
- The move follows a recent Supreme Court ruling expanding presidential power to fire members of independent agency boards without cause, enabling Trump's removal of the four-member commission created under the Help America Vote Act.
- Morgan DeWitt Snow, deputy director of presidential personnel, notified Hicks and Hovland via email of their removal. The commission's Republican member Christy McCormick resigned, while former Republican commissioner Donald Palmer departed voluntarily earlier this year.
- Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Joe Morelle denounced the action as an attempt to politicize election administration, warning the shake-up could stall federal grants and complicate the agency's role in voting system oversight.
- David Becker, a former Department of Justice attorney who runs the Center for Election Innovation & Research, said the purge likely won't alter state election security. The administration indicated it will appeal a federal judge's ruling blocking Trump's earlier executive order on voter registration.
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President Donald Trump confirmed Friday he has shaken up federal election commission membership after it dragged its feet on addressing non-citizen voting ahead of the approaching midterms. AP reports the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems and maintains the national…
Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape U.S. voting process
The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems and maintains the national voter registration forms.
President Donald Trump dismissed members of a bipartite federal election commission who opposed his efforts to force potential voters to prove their American citizenship before registering on the electoral roll.
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