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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 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 ...
The process they will follow is largely the same as the one that guided past quadrennial gatherings, though a new law called the Electoral Count Reform Act, passed in the aftermath of the 2021 ...
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.
Following the attempts to overturn the 2020 election, calls were made to make revise the 1887 Electoral Count Act. Such revisions were deemed necessary to clarify and adjust the roles of Congress and the Vice President in counting electoral votes. Reforms were included in a December 2022 omnibus bill, which Biden signed into law on December 29 ...
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 ...
Congress initially passed the Electoral Count Act in response to the disputed election of 1876. Multiple states sent competing slates of electors to Washington. Lawmakers determined there was no ...