# League of Women Voters — "a dangerous escalation" > [!quote] "This is not a routine personnel decision—it is a dangerous escalation in the effort to weaken the safeguards that protect free and fair elections in the November midterms." > — League of Women Voters (statement of CEO Celina Stewart), July 10, 2026 ## Context The [[League of Women Voters]] issued the statement the day after [[Donald Trump]] fired the last serving commissioners of the [[Election Assistance Commission]], leaving the bipartisan federal election-administration agency without a quorum months before the 2026 midterms. The full statement also called the removals "a direct attack on the independence of our nation's election infrastructure." The League framed the purge not as an isolated personnel action but as part of a coordinated pattern that included the [[Department of Justice]]'s letters threatening state election officials (see [[Harmeet Dhillon]]) and the [[SAVE Act]]. The "dangerous escalation" phrasing signals that the organization viewed the EAC purge as qualitatively different from earlier voting-rights fights — institutional dismantlement rather than a policy dispute.