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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 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 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 Electoral Count Reform Act modified some of the provisions that Trump attempted to use to challenge the electoral count on Jan. 6, 2021. The law also makes it harder harder for Congress to ...
The grounds for lodging an objection are also stricter now, because of the 2022 Electoral Count Reform Act. That legislation also explicitly limited the role of the President of the Senate ...
A bipartisan group of senators is now working on narrower election reforms after the Senate failed to pass major voting rights legislation this week.
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 ...
The Electoral Count Reform Act will revise the 1887 Electoral Count Act to make clear the vice president cannot discount electoral votes. It’ll raise the threshold for objections from one member ...