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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 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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
The first memo described the constitutional and statutory process for opening and counting of electoral votes under the Twelfth Amendment and Electoral Count Act, alleging that the Electoral Count Act was unconstitutional. The memo further claimed that the Vice President, who also serves as President of the Senate and presides over the joint ...
A bipartisan group of senators is now working on narrower election reforms after the Senate failed to pass major voting rights legislation this week.
Citing political scientist Gary L. Gregg, [38] National Popular Vote Inc. notes that the Constitutional Convention delegates did not expect the Electoral College to regularly fail to produce a candidate with a majority of electoral votes and routinely require the House of Representatives to choose the President in a contingent election. [16]