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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.
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 ...
When Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act in the wake of former President Donald Trump's post-2020 election effort to reverse his loss, leaders in both parties said it would help ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the wake of the controversy stirred up by Trump after the last election, Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act 2022 to shore up the process and prevent fraudulent challenges to the ...
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.
The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 119th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act and Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, on January 6, 2025, will be the final step to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election over Kamala Harris.