A bipartisan group of senators has quietly reached agreement on a sweeping effort to overhaul the very law at the heart of the former president's effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest?They want to block any future effort to exploit the law's vagueness.Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi preside over a joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College votes of the 2020 presidential election in the House Chamber in Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, 2021.
The bill text, according to an aide familiar with the matter, is nearly done and is expected to be released soon. In addition to those changes to the 1887 law, the Senate group reached back to an 1845 law, the Presidential Election Day Act, to strike what it calls "an archaic" provision "that could be used by state legislatures to override the popular vote in their states by declaring a 'failed election' –- a term that is not defined in the law," the group's release states.
The group goes on to define a sole election winner as someone who "receives the majority of pledged electoral votes and there are no further legal or administrative actions pertaining to the results; receives the majority of electoral votes at the meeting of electors in December following the election; or is formally elected at the joint meeting of Congress on January 6."
After the 2020 election, however, Trump and his congressional allies' outsized effort -- without evidence to back their claims of election fraud -- moved Congress to finally act.
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