{"id":3511,"date":"2026-07-10T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:34:35","slug":"donald-trump-ousts-election-commission-members-in-latest-push-to-reshape-us-voting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p>President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before registering.<\/p>\n<p>The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems and maintains the national voter registration forms.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest move in the Republican president\u2019s effort to expand White House influence over how U.S. elections are conducted and comes after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave the president new personnel authority to fire members of independent agency boards.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe President, and head of the Executive Branch, reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing America\u2019s elections and ensuring every legal vote is counted. The Slaughter decision gives the President precedence to do so,\u201d said a White House statement to AP.<\/p>\n<p>The president removed the commission\u2019s two Democratic members, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland. The panel\u2019s Republican member, Christy McCormick resigned. Former Republican commissioner Donald Palmer already had left his post voluntarily earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were first reported by VoteBeat, a news outlet that covers elections and voting across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>While the White House statement did not offer a specific reason for Trump\u2019s action, the commission has previously declined to change the national voter registration form to require documentation of an applicant\u2019s U.S. citizenship, as Trump\u2019s urged in a sweeping March 2025 executive order on U.S. elections. A federal judge blocked the order, ruling it exceeds the president\u2019s authority since the U.S. Constitution grants authority over elections management and oversight to Congress and the states. The administration has indicated it will appeal.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear whether Trump planned to nominate new members immediately or leave the positions vacant \u2014 a move that, months ahead of midterm elections, could prevent the agency from distributing new grants to state or local elections offices and, at the least, complicate its role in overseeing testing and certification of voting systems around the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Administration from the start has been working across all agencies and local partners to safeguard elections from fraud and abuse, and investing in a strong infrastructure to sustain that mission especially in the midterm elections,\u201d the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>Congress created the four-member commission as part of the Help America Vote Act, a bipartisan law signed by Republican President George W. Bush in 2002. The act requires the commission to include two Democrats and two Republicans, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Hicks and McCormick were appointed by President Barack Obama. 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The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101,1093,1094,1133,1134,67,1103,63,1144],"tags":[5632,5633,252,490,5634,511],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-0-no-apple-publish","category-0recent-headlines","category-0trending","category-1gridnation","category-1gridnationandstate","category-nation","category-uncategorized","category-world","category-z-ntl-galley","tag-benjamin-hovland","tag-christy-mccormick","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-the-white-house","tag-thomas-hicks","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process - Denver Moving Chronicle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3511\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process - Denver Moving Chronicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before registering. 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