The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 alsorequires that each state determinea state official — the governor unless specified otherwise — to be responsible for submitting the "certificate of ascertainment" that identifies the state's electors and includes a security feature. What were the 2024 El...
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Luckily, we do have some new guardrails, enacted in response to the attempts to overturn the 2020 election. TheElectoral Count Reform Act(ECRA), signed into law in 2022, updates and shores up many of the antiquated procedures from the old Electoral Count Act of 1887, which proved so unhelpf...
least one-fifth of the House and one-fifth of the Senate. That’s a higher bar than in past years, when only one member of the House and one Senator could pause the proceedings. The grounds for lodging an objection are also stricter now, because of the 2022 Electoral Count Reform Act....
In response to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators announced two proposals related to election administration, including one that would reform the Electoral Count Act, the 1887 law that still governs the process of casting and counting Electoral Coll...
This is because switching to proportional representation -- be it mixed-member or single-transferable vote -- would require changing the boundaries of all 338 electoral districts, and the current wording of section 51 of the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Electoral Boundaries Re-Adjustment Act ...
Several attendees called for some form of a citizens’ assembly to deal with the question of electoral reform instead of the committee during a hearing in Whitehorse on Sept. 7. While looking into potential changes to the voting system, the committee has held hearings with expert witnesses and...
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 ...
Electors must be elected on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, as required by a federal law dating from 1845. As a belated result of the disputed election of 1876 involving Samuel J.Tildenand Rutherford B.Hayes, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 placed the responsibility of de...