In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission

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https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-leadership/

President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections, according to multiple media reports.

Trump’s firing of Democratic Commissioners Thomas Hicks and Ben Hovland and Republican Commissioner Christy McCormick leaves the four-commissioner federal agency without leadership just months before the upcoming 2026 election.

Donald Palmer, a Republican and the agency’s fourth commissioner, abruptly resigned earlier this year.

In a statement, the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State (DASS) denounced the dismissals as “incredibly irresponsible.”

“The EAC plays a critical role in supporting state and local election officials, and it will again fall on Secretaries of State and other election administrators to fill the gap,” DASS Chair and Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said.

“From cutting funding for cybersecurity to launching baseless investigations, this pattern of behavior from the Trump administration makes it harder for our election officials to do their work and does nothing to make elections more secure,” Aguilar added.

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