Trump fires Election Assistance Commission members ahead of midterms

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday terminated the last three members of the Election Assistance ‌Commission, the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide, according to one person familiar with the decision and two other people briefed on the terminations. The remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipartisan commission were forced out of the commission on Thursday in different ways. The one Republican appointee resigned and the other ​two Democratic appointees were fired via an email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, according to two people familiar with the ​terminations. The fourth commissioner departed the commission in...