After the Capitol riot in 2021, Congress moved to reform the Electoral Count Act — an 1887 law that governed the counting of electoral votes — to prevent another effort to overturn the results of a presidential election.Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act in 2022, which clarified t...
The final tally of electoral votes showed that Trump received 312 electoral votes, surpassing the 270 needed to win the presidency, while Harris received 226 votes. The congressional counting and certifying of electoral votes is typically a ceremonial procedure. However, the "Capitol riot" four year...
Analysis: Congress certifying electoral votesLIANE HANSEN
A joint session of Congress counted the Electoral College votes and certified them on Friday, formally bringing this unconventional presidential election to a close. Several House Democrats tried to raise objections multiple times during the vote-counting, but they didn’t acquire signatures from a se...
President-elect Joe Biden won the election, and presidential electors cast their votes last week in the Electoral College. But Trump and his campaign have disputed the results and launched numerous legal challenges, although nearly all of them have failed. Earlier this month, the...
Completing the process:The vice president will announce the whole number of electoral votes (538) and what constitutes a simple majority (217) and announce how many electoral votes each candidate got, then do the same for vice president.The vice president will declare the joint session dissolved...
12 of 15 | Election officers count votes for the recent election at a counting center in Jammu, India, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) 13 of 15 | Electoral counting officials count postal ballots at a counting centre for the assembly election in Jammu, India, Tuesday, ...
the counting of the electoral votes. Sources told CNN that the vice president is expected to make statements supportive of Trump’s efforts to contest the results while baselessly alleging the results are fraudulent. A senior Trump adviser added Pence could take on a more aggressive posture than ...
said he intends to include billions of dollars in funding for Ukraine in the omnibus bill, something that Senate leaders in both parties say is necessary as that country defends itself against Russia, as well as ameasureaimed at reforming and clarifying the process for counting electoral votes. ...
The first days of the new Congress will be marked by the speaker's election, which is required before the House moves on to other business, and the counting of the Electoral College votes on Monday, Jan. 6. Congressional Republicans have touted their alignment on the issues, saying that the...