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Oppose reducing the commission from six members to an odd number

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 29, p. 865. Written by Hans A. von Spakovsky.

Oppose reducing the commission from six members to an odd number

The document says “should”Who acts: PresidentHow: not specifiedp. 865 in the PDF
What the document says

“The President should vigorously oppose all efforts, as proposed, for example, in Section 6002 of the “For the People Act of 2021,””

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 865

The proposals in question would reduce the commission from six members to five or another odd number. The chapter defends the current requirement of four votes to authorize an enforcement action, which with six members split evenly between the parties means no action can proceed on a party-line vote.

What the document actually says

“The President should vigorously oppose all efforts, as proposed, for example, in Section 6002 of the “For the People Act of 2021,””

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 865
That sentence, in plain words

Some want fewer people on this commission. The president should fight that hard.

What this is about

The election agency has six members, three from each party. Four must agree to act. Some want an odd number instead. The book says no.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. No candidate concerns the size of the Federal Election Commission or the four vote requirement for enforcement. The nearest by subject is Executive Order 14248 of March 25, 2025 on election integrity, which directs proof of citizenship documentation, data sharing by the Social Security Administration with state election officials and enforcement of voter list maintenance. A search of its text finds no mention of the Federal Election Commission or of commissioners. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 865.
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    “Oppose reducing the commission from six members to an odd number,” Project 2025, chapter 29, p. 865. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch29-oppose-changing-commission-size/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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