Overview
- The White House fired the three remaining Election Assistance Commission commissioners by email that said their positions were terminated effective immediately on Friday, July 10, 2026.
- The EAC is a bipartisan federal agency created in 2002 that certifies voting machines, accredits test labs, distributes federal election funds, and maintains the national mail voter-registration form.
- A U.S. Supreme Court decision issued in the weeks before July 10 expanded presidential authority to remove leaders of independent agencies and helped clear the way for the firings.
- Democratic leaders, state election officials and voting-rights groups condemned the move as an effort to politicize election oversight and warned it could undermine nonpartisan safeguards and voter confidence.
- With the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency previously dismantled, election officials say losing EAC leadership could slow equipment certification, lab accreditation and funding help for states and trigger more legal and political fights over federal election rules.