Trump weighed national emergency to bypass election agency before firing leaders: report

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By Bennito L. Kelty
Published July 10, 2026 9:55 PM ET

The Trump administration plotted ways to bypass an election agency before firing its leaders, according to reporting by Reuters.

According to four anonymous sources who spoke to Reuters, the White House "spent months" mulling ways around Election Assistance Commission guidelines for state voting machines. Earlier this week, Trump fired two Democratic members of the commission and allowed its lone Republican commissioner to resign just months before the midterms.

Some Trump White House officials wanted the EAC to add a proof-of-citizenship requirement for the national mail voter registration form. Others, as far back as last fall, considered whether to declare a national emergency, according to Reuters.

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You know every fascist, dictator, authoritarian, megalomanic, whatever you want to call them they always follow the same play book every GD time...........every time...........we will need at least 100 million voters in this election.........

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1. Democrats and we the people need to keep the pressure on them. They are scared shitless. Every single mfker

who colluded with these fascist repukes is scared shitless. The judiciary is holding on by a thread. We are the the last line.