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The bill was sponsored by Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia in July 2022. [1] After five months of negotiations, it became Division P of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 , which passed 68–29 in the Senate on December 22, 2022, and 225–201 in the House the following day. [ 4 ]
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 ...
Ultimately, Republicans would pass the bill in August, 2021. [5] [6] In 2017, HB 496, a bill to enact the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, was introduced to the Texas State Legislature, but the bill died in committee without a hearing. [7] The Texas Voter Choice Act, introduced in 2017, was an attempt to reform Texas electoral law.
Proposals for electoral reform have included overturning the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC , public and citizen funding of elections, limits and transparency in funding, ranked-choice voting (RCV), abolishing the Electoral College or nullifying its impact through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact , and improving ...
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More than 50 Texas state lawmakers are still in Washington, D.C. The Texas Senate passed a version of the bill yesterday, but without enough House lawmakers present in the state that bill can't go ...
Senate Bill 2271, introduced by Republican senator Robert Erbele and passed 43-3 (Republicans hold a 40-vote majority in the Senate), would withhold the state's vote count from the public until after votes in the Electoral College have been cast; the measure is intended to prevent the implementation of the National Popular Vote Interstate ...
In Pennsylvania, a bipartisan electoral reform bill passed the Democratic-controlled House on July 10. But there is no sign that the Republican-led state Senate will take up the measure when ...