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All three remaining members of the federal body tasked with administering elections have been fired or resigned, Scripps News has learned.

Scripps News confirmed on Thursday that Democratic commissioners Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland were fired, while Republican Christy McCormick resigned her post.

The agency's fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, resigned in April of this year. He later joined the Heritage Foundation.

There are now no commissioners remaining to lead the agency, which is a bipartisan board created to guide and inform states as they administer their elections. Its stated mission is "to help election officials improve the administration of elections and help Americans participate in the voting process."

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[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 11 points 17 hours ago

So these fuckers are just blatantly trying to reduce election integrity? And no one does anything about it?

[-] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

It may be ignored by most.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Election integrity has been diminishing since the 1990s, in many states, when the election machines started switching outcomes?

I think we can look at history and perhaps guess?

The people who raised questions about voting machines were ignored by most. There were multiple conventions of computer science people and hackers, entire movements that received no press or coverage, who were ignored by politicians of both parties.

Later most people just gave up trying to change things back to paper votes. There were some successes like Virginia.

The people who gave up did not change their views, they understood there was nothing they could do to remove voting machines.

Mostly any protest fell on deaf ears, not only by the press , but most voters. And it’s still hard to get non leftists remotely interested in it. And leftists themselves generally know elections are a scam in many other ways, so they don’t care much about that one particular cheat.

This new approach may avoid the taboos of previous tampering. It’s much more obvious and can be explained without needing a technical background.

I’ll be interested to see if it does.

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