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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump launches ‘pathetic power grab’ to derail midterms after firing election commissioners, voting groups say

Voting rights groups and election officials are sounding alarms after President Donald Trump abruptly pushed out the three remaining members of an independent agency tasked with supporting officials who run the nation's elections.

The president’s latest firings leave the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission without any active members less than four months before midterm elections with the balance of power in Congress — and the future of Trump’s agenda — at stake.

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