“One of the lawyers who helped Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat has reportedly landed a seat on federal Election Assistance Commission’s board of advisers. Attorney Cleta Mitchell was on the infamous January conference call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when the president demanded that Raffensperger ‘find 11,780 votes’ to reverse his defeat. After the recording of her backing Trump on that call was released, Mitchell resigned her position as a partner at her law firm. However, according to Jessica Huseman, the editorial director of Votebeat, Mitchell has now been named to the board of advisors for the Election Assistance Commission – a federal agency that supports election officials to make sure their elections are secure and accurate. In an ambiguous statement that didn’t name Mitchell, the EAC said it ‘does not make or approve appointments to the 35-member Board of Advisors… Board members are directly appointed by a wide variety of organizations'” the Daily Beast reports.
We had meant to report this yesterday but couldn’t find any sourcing whatsoever on who appointed this crone to the board. Also, not that it makes this right at all, but the EAC has no actual power regulating elections policy and is strictly an advisory resource for voting administrators.