President Donald Trump has fired the remaining three members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission with just months to go before the midterm elections, reported Reuters' Erin Blanco on Thursday evening.
This follows the landmark Supreme Court decision that overturns 90 years of precedent to give Trump near-unlimited power to fire the heads of agencies, even those Congress set up to be independent with merit protections.
Blanco originally and erroneously referenced the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the agency responsible for upholding campaign finance laws. The FEC is already effectively neutered as it has too many vacancies to hold quorum.
The EAC helps states administer elections and gives guidance on voting procedures.
Trump and his associates, she added, have been "for a year discussing ways to find ways to bypass the EAC on certain things - like voting machine system updates/changes."
It also comes as Trump, who has never abandoned his conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election being rigged against him, seeks to impose strict new federal oversight of state mail-in voting procedures and investigate election workers around the country.