They're not even going to pretend to count the votes, are they?

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!

"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

i think it's so funny how americans think they live in a democracy while one guy just fires whomever he wants.

This is not a red flag in any way...

Called it. As soon as the Supreme Court gave their ruling on hiring/firing within independent agencies, I figured the FEC/EAC would be screwed. Godddamn, I hate this administration.

Welp.

We lived long enough to see America become a 3rd world shithole.

Edit: Don't care if I get banned. This traitor's head needs to be on a pike.

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.

This is it. His big move. It's all out in the open now and the endgame is midterms. C'mon citizens of all stripes, choose neighbourhood reps to watch and video all the polling booths on election day. You'll need that insurance.

I never thought in my lifetime the United States would need "International Observers".

Thanks SCOTUS!

This right here is the final straw. Cancelling the independence of federal agencies will turn this nation into a capitalist MAGA shithole faster than anything else he's done.

I used to believe that we needed to add 4 seats to SCOTUS, but I no longer believe that. Now I believe that we need to add at least 20 seats to SCOTUS, with rolling term limits. The count shouldn't be so close that one bad faith president can negatively manipulate policy for the next century. It should include rolling term limits, so every president gets to appoint a few, but not enough to steer the direction of the court.

We have to strengthen the independence of the three branches of government, and this is how we do it for SCOTUS.

Dude is trying to steal the next election and install himself as king, amd we're all just shrugging our shoulders. Let's see how that works out for us.

Really interested to know why nobody near this guy has any spine whatsoever.

They should still show up to work and do their jobs. I highly doubt they answer directly to the executive branch, or that the president even has the power to terminate them.

How were they selected in the first place? Are they elected, appointed, or hired? By whom? These are the questions that matter.

If they report to Congress, then I'm guessing at a minimum that it would take an act of congress to fire them. Not that republicans wouldn't do it if trump asks, but there's a narrow enough majority that a few spoiler votes could block it.

We need to stop letting trump get away with usurping the powers of the other branches of government.

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.

he's setting himself up for a coup from a general, at this point it could really happen

Fired the Democrat, but "allowed the Republican to resign". That is some petty shit. Not that it surprises me coming from Trump and the hairs he has hanging on to his balls like DeWitt.

Can't wait to see how much phantom voter fraud his administration uncovers exclusively in states run by people Trump personally doesn't like. With no mention of how they know there is any fraud to begin with since it seems like they have fired everyone on the Federal side that had any direct insight into elections with this announcement.

I'm sure someone in the media will get right on that line of thought when the time comes. /s

Directly from the authoritarian playbook

This was the plan from the beginning. Don’t act surprised now or when there are armed men at polling stations on Election Day.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Thomas Jefferson

Can't win because you're shit? Cheat.

• Republican Party Saying

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.

Chat, are we cooked?

Free elections...Russian style

Who has 'Americans will do nothing to stop it' on their bingo card?

At this point we cannot accept ANY outcome other than Democratic control of both houses. If somehow that isn’t the reported result it is clearly because of all of this bullshit and should NOT be accepted under any circumstances.

The options are either we win or it’s rigged. Period.

Drump is one of the most hated presidents in US history, seriously none of this will work out in the favor of the Republican party. Fuel shortages start soon, all thanks to Trump's economy.

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?