Congress is moving toward fixing the way it counts votes for president, but it won't be easy

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A bipartisan group of senators has reached a compromise on revising the Electoral Count Act. To avoid a repeat of Jan. 6, there's no time to waste.

to fix the Electoral Count Act, the ramshackle 1887 law that then-President Trump used to try to overturn the 2020 election.

Most legal scholars said Trump misinterpreted the law, but that didn’t stop the former president from nearly touching off a constitutional crisis, if not a coup d’etat.in Congress that the law should be revamped before 2024 to prevent Trump or other candidates from trying those gambits again. You might have expected a common-sense proposal like that to win broad and immediate support beyond the nine Republicans and six Democrats who negotiated it.

On the right, many Republicans — especially those who face primary elections this year — fear drawing Trump’s wrath if they endorse a bill aimed so squarely at his groundless campaign to delegitimize the 2020 election. The former president denounced the 16 senators last week as “Democrats and RINOs” .

For example, the proposed bill says a state may delay an election only in case of “extraordinary and catastrophic” events; some Democrats have said they want that provision to be more specific.

 

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Add that Trump can’t run AGAIN?

Does this mean the dems are conceding that the election was rigged and that the protest on Jan 6th was justified... cuz, it should!!

When will Satan finally call in his marker with Piglosi? Clearly it’s waaay past due💯🔥👺

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