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Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act; Long title: To amend title 3, United States Code, to reform the Electoral Count Act, and to amend the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 to provide clear guidelines for when and to whom resources are provided by the Administrator of General Services for use in connection with the preparations for the assumption of official ...
The Electoral Count Reform Act should simplify what happens when Kamala Harris, as president of the Senate, certifies the election results next year—whether she wins the presidential election or ...
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) (Pub. L. 49–90, 24 Stat. 373, [1] later codified at Title 3, Chapter 1 [2]) is a United States federal law that added to procedures set out in the Constitution of the United States for the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election.
The number of electoral votes each state gets can change after the census every 10 years. It is tied to the number of House members plus two senators each state has in Congress.
The Electoral Count Reform Act makes that approach more difficult by clarifying that the vice president's vote-counting role is ceremonial and by raising the number of votes in Congress needed to ...
[1] The members of the 2024 Electoral College met on December 17, 2024, the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday of December as per the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022. [2] Candidates and their four electors on a ballot in Ada County, Idaho.
A bipartisan group of senators is now working on narrower election reforms after the Senate failed to pass major voting rights legislation this week.
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, will be the final step to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election over Kamala Harris.