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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Kentucky) expressed his support for a bipartisan bill aimed at clarifying election laws and avoiding another attempt to overturn results. “I strongly support the modest changes that our colleagues in the working group have fleshed out after literally months of detailed discussions,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “I’ll proudly support the legislation, provided that nothing more than technical changes are made to its current form.” “Congress’ process for counting the presidential electors’ votes was written 135 years ago. The chaos that came to a he...
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Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush chief of staff and Secretary of State James Baker jointedly penned an article in the Wall Street Journal calling on the Senate to progress on Election Count Act reform. “We stand on opposite sides of the partisan divide, but we believe it is better to search for solutions together than to remain divided,” the article began. They stressed the importance of updating the Electoral Count Act, which dates back to 1887, so it doesn’t affect the upcoming 2024 election. Carter and Baker also praised the Senate bipartisan g...
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The Democrats’ voting rights bill was blocked in the Senate earlier this week, but there is still hope that some reforms can be enacted in the election space. On Capitol Hill, both sides are willing to talk reform to the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which outlines how votes should be counted. The goal is to make it more difficult to discard certified electoral votes when Congress comes together to count them. Sens. Susan Collins(R-Maine) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), leaders of a bipartisan Senate group, said a Zoom meeting will happen over the next week. “The model for coming up with an ele...
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