“The firings leave the four-member commission with no commissioners, meaning it cannot take official action until new members are installed. They also come days after the Supreme Court granted the president power to fire leaders of independent agencies, weakening a legal framework that for decades had insulated bipartisan federal commissions from direct White House control.”
sounds like Mitch McConnell is about to be pronounced dead and this is to stop a special election
Stopping state elections doesn’t seem like authority a federal Election Assistance Commission would have