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The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 is a revision of the Electoral Count Act of 1887, adding to procedures set out in the Constitution of the United States for the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election. It also amended the Presidential Transition Act.
What does the Electoral Count Reform Act change? The new legislation, the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, plugs some of the old law’s holes.
The Act has since been substantially amended by the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022. The Act was enacted by Congress in 1887, ten years after the disputed 1876 presidential election , in which several states submitted competing slates of electors and a divided Congress was unable to resolve the ...
The 2022 Electoral Count Reform Act modified those rules, including by clarifying that the vice president's constitutional role of opening electors' vote certificates for counting doesn't include ...
Another contributor to the less dramatic Electoral College meetings this year is that Congress came together in 2022 to pass a bipartisan law, the Electoral Count Reform Act, clarifying how ...
The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 119th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act and Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, on January 6, 2025, was held as the final step that confirmed President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election over incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris.
In 2022, Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act to clarify that each state's governor or other official chosen by the state will certify the state's election results before they are ...
Both chambers of Congress have introduced legislation to update the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act.