A bipartisan bill that would change how members of Congress could object to electoral votes — Congress’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection — passed the Senate on Thursday as part of sweeping spending bill to fund the government.
that the risk of another effort to steal a presidential election remains high — as Trump continues to spread baseless claims of widespread election fraud, and as pro-Trump candidates in state and local elections around the country embrace those falsehoods.The Senate and House bills differ chiefly in how much they would change the threshold necessary for members of both chambers to object to a state’s results.
The Senate bill would also strike a provision of an “archaic 1845 law” that could be used by state legislatures to override their states’ popular votes by declaring a “failed election,” a term not defined by law, according to a summary of the bill from Collins’s office. “Instead, this legislation specifies that a state could move its presidential election day, which otherwise would remain the Tuesday immediately following the first Monday in November every four years, only if necessitated by ‘extraordinary and catastrophic’ events,” the document notes.— had little support from GOP lawmakers.
McConnell has called the House bill a “non-starter” because of its lack of support from GOP lawmakers. “It’s clear that only a bipartisan compromise originating in the Senate can actually become law,” he said in September. “One party going it alone would be a non-starter. In my view, the House bill is a non-starter. We have one shot to get this right.”
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