I just realized that the USA does not have civil services. Like your elected officials can appoint random people for random things.
Anyway, a good election commision can be formed by pooling career civil servants, equal representatives from each political party, a bench of retired judges elected by the Senate for a unit time.
The commision can not make any policy decision. All they can do is ensure that the elections happen in a clean way. Also banning is one of the extreme decisions, but if they do ban the candidate, the party has to provide someone else to contest.
A democracy where all candidates are liars is no better than Russian democracy where there are no candidates