The Election Assistance Commission currently has zero commissioners.
Posted by Badlands Media, Checked
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
Reuters (July 2026) reports the White House removed the last Democratic commissioners and a Republican resigned, leaving the four-member EAC with no sitting commissioners. A Congressional Research Service report published 2026-09-01 independently says the commission was left without members, so the claim held on the 2026-09-16 posting date. The post's wording matches the claim, so no extraction departure applies.
This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.
What was said
… The eac is so independent and bipartisan Oh, well, I mean, technically it's supposed to be two Democrats and two Republicans, and yeah. What does that mean if Democrats and Republicans are the same thing? Exactly, exactly Is to Republican appointees and now has zero commissioners. We have seen the FBI, surge personnel from every single field office around the country to do some kind of investigation in Georgia this summer. It's not clear what they were doing, but it appeared to be related to the 2020 election. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Reuters reports that Trump terminated the last three EAC members on July 9, 2026, leaving the four-member commission without any sitting commissioners.[1]
Supports. A CRS report published 2026-09-01 states the departures left the commission without members, combined with the April 2026 resignation of the fourth commissioner.[2]
Supports. Wire and news reports (WJCL, FOX 9) and Wikipedia's commissioner section likewise state that as of July 2026 the commission has no commissioners.[4][5][6]
Context. The EAC's own commissioners page describes the statutory four-member structure but does not itself state the current count.[3]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 3 not rated
- 1Trump fires Election Assistance Commission members ahead of midtermsreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2The US Election Assistance Commission (EAC)congress.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Commissioners | U.S. Election Assistance Commissioneac.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Election Assistance Commission - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Trump removals leave federal election agency empty - WJCLwjcl.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Federal election agency frozen after commissioners removedfox9.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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