The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.

The Election Assistance Commission serves as a clearinghouse of election information and distributes grant money to states.

President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission charged with assisting state and local ...

The White House defended President Trump's dismissal of the bipartisan U.S. Elections Assistance Commission's remaining members as enhancing election security. Critics called it a dangerous partisan ...

President Donald Trump has fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the federal Election Assistance Commission, while Christy McCormick, the Republican, was allowed to resign, sources ...

Two Democrats and one Republican were ousted from the agency, leaving their replacements with Senate confirmation ahead of midterms.

President Donald Trump has removed the remaining three members of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), an independent federal agency that supports election administration officials nationwide.

President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the Elections Assistance Commission and received the resignation of a Republican member.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday terminated the last three members of the Election Assistance Commission, the ‌independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials ...

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WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump on Thursday terminated the last three members of the Election Assistance Commission, the independent federal commission that assists election administration ...