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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 ...
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 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 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 ...
A bipartisan group of senators is now working on narrower election reforms after the Senate failed to pass major voting rights legislation this week.
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 ...
Pursuant to that law, the Electoral Count Reform Act, the vice president, who presides over the vote-certification, has no power to set aside disputed electors. And the threshold is now higher to ...