President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission charged with assisting state and local elections officials.

(AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)BOSTON – Leaders of the federal agency overseeing election administration have quietly weakened a key element of proposed security standards for voting systems, raising concern among voting-integrity experts that many such systems will remain vulnerable to hacking. They stress that the rules require manufacturers to disable wireless functions present in any machines, although the wireless hardware can remain. “It’s so small-sighted the way some people have been approaching this.”Hovland stressed that the amended guidelines say all wireless capability must be disabled in voting equipment. California, Colorado, New York and Texas already ban wireless modems in their voting equipment. Republicans, however, have stymied attempts at election security reform in the Senate.