A member of the Federal Election Commission is calling for all of her colleagues to leave the agency, saying on Thursday that it would be a “simple fix” for eliminating stalemates in voting. She also proposed an ideological litmus test that would prevent disagreements among future commissioners.

“To say that the FEC was intended to stalemate is absurd,” Commissioner Ann Ravel said in a speech at the Brookings Institution. “Congress established the FEC in the wake of the biggest scandal and constitutional crisis in this country since the Civil War,” she said, referring to its 1975 formation in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.