Called it. As soon as the Supreme Court gave their ruling on hiring/firing within independent agencies, I figured the FEC would be screwed. Godddamn, I hate this administration.
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they saw midterms were going to crucify gop and trump, so they had to act quick.
The EAC supports elections but doesn’t run them, states and counties do that. So firing all its members freezes a federal support office, not the election machinery itself.
Think of it as the standards lab that certifies equipment and hands out funds, not the referee on the field. The main effects:
• Frozen certification of new voting machines (existing ones stay valid). So new companies can’t provide new equipment. Possibly means ‘the fix is in’ by Musk or associates
• No rule changes to the federal registration form — which also blocks the administration from adding things like proof-of-citizenship before November. So this looks more like the regime is shooting it’s own foot here.
• Stalled grants and guidance to states.
Bottom line: it’s closer to paralysis than takeover, and it doesn’t change how you vote. The real open question is legal — whether firing bipartisan election commissioners survives a court challenge… if it is ever challenged in court by the dormant democrats.
which also blocks the administration from adding things like proof-of-citizenship before November.
You think that's going to stop them? lol. You must be new around here. They broke it so they can "fix" it the way they always wanted it.
And they already won the court case. It was earlier this week at SCOTUS.
I'm not going to be surprised when they declare this election a horrible loss due to illegal voting in blue states no matter what the outcome is. Then they'll use the noncompliance with illegal demands and lack of a federal oversight committee to declare an emergency around late October 2028.
"Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy."
David Frum
Uh, not this year.
They're not even going to pretend to count the votes, are they?
They will definitely pretend to count the votes.
Depends on what state you're in.
Just a reminder billionaires and private equity bought the voting machine companies like Dominion. All of them.
They can count???
They don't count as politicians because they don't count the voters. They are something else.
Hahahahhahhahhahahhha, no.
This is not a red flag in any way...
There's TONS of ELECTION FRAUD so we need to FIRE the ONLY people who's ENTIRE JOBS are to MONITOR these Crimes!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
"there's tons of election fraud and these people didn't find it so they need to be fired"
You need to use your imagination a bit more buddy.
The Commission is tasked with testing and certification but they're supposed to report to Congress every two years, handle federal funds, and handle communication on laws, procedures, etc.
Based on this news, Trump is so desperate to avoid accountability that he doesn't even want to hold a pretend election, like North Korea does.
So maybe I’m stupid but don’t states run elections? Why would they need anything from the feds? Like shouldn’t the feds just be completely gone in all ways during state run elections?
I must be missing something here, will this even matter?
It is mainly handled by the states, thankfully. This commission is actually fairly new and was designed to basically streamline things. So the US can technically live without it.
Trump is just getting desperate.
Remove efficiency Delay counts and results Cry foul
Oh good it's not something crucial. More a flailing move than a power play.
Almost nothing in voting is done by executive agencies so the vote stealing impact of this is going to be more indirect.
Maybe destroying this agency is to try to give a parallel fascist agency validity. Or maybe he thinks he can nominate Jared and Ivanka as Democrats. Or maybe he just doesn't want states to get federal election aid so the system is more vulnerable.
Chat, are we cooked?
Charcoal at this point.
Maybe? States count the votes so idk. Probably.
the red ones will just purge the dem district votes, or just not count them.
F.A.I.T.H. is coming along nicely i see. (Bobiverse)
Well… shit.
I’m running out of exasperated responses. This will have to do for now.
Go back to sleep