Maine's Democratic Party has less than three weeks to register a new US Senate nominee with the Maine secretary of state after moving to replace Graham Plattner.
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NPR's Ashley Lopez delivers one of the bulletin's most consequential stories: the Trump administration has gutted the Election Assistance Commission, an independent body born out of the administrative chaos of the 2000 presidential election [1] — Ashley Lopez "The Trump White House removed the last remaining commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission, an independent agency created after t…" 00:58 . The EAC was designed with four commissioners — a bipartisan structure meant to insulate it from partisan influence. But that structure has now collapsed entirely: one Republican resigned abruptly earlier in the year, another followed suit, and the two Democratic members were actively removed by the White House. Lopez also notes Trump simultaneously removed members of the Federal Election Commission, another independent elections watchdog. Together, the moves leave the machinery of US election oversight significantly weakened as the country heads toward midterm elections — a timing that many will find deeply troubling.
Maine's Democratic Party is scrambling to replace US Senate nominee Graham Plattner, with fewer than three weeks to submit a new name to the state's secretary of state. The party says it will hold a nominating convention to select the replacement.
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