A top federal election official should lose her job over making unfounded claims that Democrats rely on “illegal citizens” to win elections, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read said Friday.

Christy McCormick, one of four members of the federal Election Assistance Commission, joined a Wednesday panel at the America First Policy Institute, a think tank closely aligned with President Donald Trump. The hour-long discussion about election fraud included McCormick and other panelists speculating about why Democrats oppose their efforts to restrict voting access in the name of election security.

“They need open borders, they need illegal citizens to increase their votes,” she said. “And this is why they’re fighting so adamantly against us to try to prevent that from happening.”

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