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After the Firings, Election Officials Need a Plan B for the EAC

On July 9th, President Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and accepted the resignation of its lone remaining Republican, leaving the agency with zero sitting commissioners four months before the midterms. The White House cited last month’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned decades of precedent […] The post After the Firings, Election Officials Need a Plan B for the EAC appeared first on Center for Democracy and Tec

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Published: 10 July 2026
Source: Center for Democracy & Technology
Category: Field notes
Topics: Misinformation
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (10 July 2026), “After the Firings, Election Officials Need a Plan B for the EAC,” evidence record 1712, https://ethics.ai/record/1712 (originally published by Center for Democracy & Technology).

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