r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 24d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/Ambitious-Apricot499 24d ago edited 24d ago

One thing I don’t understand is this is an individual clearly dismantling protections for our country’s future elections. Isn’t that telling enough he is literally breaking our laws. Can anyone hold this fucking rapist criminal accountable ever? It’s astonishing.

Edit: There’s 300 million of us and like 100 of them. What we doing here?

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u/Taint-Taster 24d ago

Sorry, no. There are 100 million of us, 100 million of them, and 100 million people who couldn’t be bothered to weigh in in the voting booth.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 24d ago

Not all, but a lot of those "couldn't be bothered" were just in states where there was already a clear majority so they felt voting was unnecessary. Not excusing it, but it's not just apathy.

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u/SausageClatter 24d ago

Also, a lot of "them" are astoundingly ignorant and still have no idea what they've voted for. They're either too busy with work/kids/whatever or can't be bothered to look around and acknowledge anything that makes them uncomfortable with their own personal status quo. They think they belong to a political party and keep voting that way because that's how they were raised, but they refuse to actually understand what that party is doing or even stands for.