• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 days ago

    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.

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    Whats annoying is this was done before and was settled but when you have a collusion congress he can still get away with it. Should to see what happens with the comptroller general given his term is up end of this year.