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The effort to prevent the certification of Electoral College votes on January 6, 2021, was legally possible because of loopholes in the Electoral Count Act of 1887 that some Republicans exploited ...
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 ...
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 Electoral Count Act and the next steps on ...
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 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 ...
In one of the last acts of the Democratic-led Congress, the House and the Senate are set to pass an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act, the arcane election law that then-President Donald Trump ...
Both chambers of Congress have introduced legislation to update the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act.
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