Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted Congress to create an independent commission to help states update their voting equipment.
The 2002 law was designed to modernize the voting process. Under it, the Election Assistance Commission was given a number of mandates: distribute $2.8 billion in federal money for new voting equipment; create voluntary guidelines for voting systems and establish a federal testing and certification program for them; oversee the national voter registration form; and gather data about federal elections.
Just like DOGE, this is Trump attempting to hijack an existing, congressionally-approved group with one or two words in the title relevant to his goal, and completely disfigure it into an executive branch tool.
Trump isn’t smart enough to have planned either of these - this has the smarmy self-assured gloat of Stephen Miller all over it. A reminder that voters didn’t just vote in the cancer that is Trump, they voted in full metastasis.
Just like DOGE, this is Trump attempting to hijack an existing, congressionally-approved group with one or two words in the title relevant to his goal, and completely disfigure it into an executive branch tool.
Trump isn’t smart enough to have planned either of these - this has the smarmy self-assured gloat of Stephen Miller all over it. A reminder that voters didn’t just vote in the cancer that is Trump, they voted in full metastasis.