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Diamond Member
This legislation allows members of Congress to dispute presidential election results, which provided the basis for an effort by former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies to overturn the presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021. Remember? Trump wanted Pence to use this Act to throw out the 2020 election in his capacity as the President of the Senate.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is discussing a scaled-back law focused on safeguarding election results and protecting election officials from harassment following Democrats' twin defeats on their voting-rights bills. Lawmakers led by Republican Senator Susan Collins and including conservative Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are due to meet virtually on Friday to discuss reform of the ECA. Collins, who said her group includes six Democrats, told reporters that the aim is "an election reform bill that is truly bipartisan, that would address many of the problems that arose on Jan. 6 and that would help restore confidence in our elections."
Senator Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is separately preparing to introduce ECA reform legislation that would curb the role of Congress and place responsibility for resolving disputes and challenges with states, according to an aide.
Manchin said he wants threatening or accosting an election official to be a federal crime.
After the Democratic voting-rights effort failed on Wednesday, senators said there could be scope to meet the 60-vote threshold with more limited legislation aimed at curbing congressional intervention in presidential elections through ECA reform. "The people who tried to overturn the last election focused on using that act in a way that would have subverted the will of the people. And so there's interest in clarifying the act," Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a member of the Collins group, told reporters.
The Collins group is also considering proposals to protect elected officials from harassment and unwarranted removal from office, address election security and improve election management, according to a person familiar with the matter.
"Unwarranted removal from office", I dunno what that means. Maybe they're talking about removal from office of someone who was confirmed to be the winner and sworn in and then subsequently found out to have fraudulently won. That's just a guess though, we already have the means to remove people from office as necessary.
I will say though that I like the attempts at bipartisanship, this is the way Congress oughta work. And this is why I opposed the end of the filibuster.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is discussing a scaled-back law focused on safeguarding election results and protecting election officials from harassment following Democrats' twin defeats on their voting-rights bills. Lawmakers led by Republican Senator Susan Collins and including conservative Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are due to meet virtually on Friday to discuss reform of the ECA. Collins, who said her group includes six Democrats, told reporters that the aim is "an election reform bill that is truly bipartisan, that would address many of the problems that arose on Jan. 6 and that would help restore confidence in our elections."
Senator Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is separately preparing to introduce ECA reform legislation that would curb the role of Congress and place responsibility for resolving disputes and challenges with states, according to an aide.
Manchin said he wants threatening or accosting an election official to be a federal crime.
After the Democratic voting-rights effort failed on Wednesday, senators said there could be scope to meet the 60-vote threshold with more limited legislation aimed at curbing congressional intervention in presidential elections through ECA reform. "The people who tried to overturn the last election focused on using that act in a way that would have subverted the will of the people. And so there's interest in clarifying the act," Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a member of the Collins group, told reporters.
The Collins group is also considering proposals to protect elected officials from harassment and unwarranted removal from office, address election security and improve election management, according to a person familiar with the matter.
"Unwarranted removal from office", I dunno what that means. Maybe they're talking about removal from office of someone who was confirmed to be the winner and sworn in and then subsequently found out to have fraudulently won. That's just a guess though, we already have the means to remove people from office as necessary.
I will say though that I like the attempts at bipartisanship, this is the way Congress oughta work. And this is why I opposed the end of the filibuster.
