Senators reach deal to clarify 1887 law
at center of Jan. 6 attempt to overturn election
ABC News,
by
Trish Turner
Original Article
Posted By: MDConservative,
7/20/2022 10:01:26 PM
As the House committee probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol continues to reveal how it says then-President Donald Trump and his allies worked to overturn the 2020 election, 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 -- the Electoral Count Act of 1887 -- and was set to unveil a bill Wednesday.
The ambiguous 19th century law attempts to prescribe both the process by which the Electoral College selects the president and vice president and how Congress then counts those votes.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 7/20/2022 10:13:37 PM (No. 1223021)
The RINO Hall of Fame members, growing in size, want to appease the DemocRats. it's election season. Remaining in power is utmost. The electorate sheep are too busy to notice, they're glued to re-reruns of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 7/20/2022 10:24:32 PM (No. 1223030)
Someday, I hope to read a thoughtful article about this topic, written by an American.
This wasn’t it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 7/20/2022 10:29:50 PM (No. 1223035)
The Act doesn't "attempt to prescribe" the voting process. It clearly does prescribe that process. And, it's not "ambiguous".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/20/2022 10:39:11 PM (No. 1223044)
If it's bi-partisan that means democrats and RINO's
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
davew 7/20/2022 10:45:30 PM (No. 1223051)
The fact that this bill was brought to the Senate confirms that the members agree that VP Pence did, in fact, have the authority to challenge the elector slates on Jan 6. The debate that was scheduled in both houses was legitimate under the law and would have resolved the entire issue through separate votes on each state's slate of electors.
It also confirms that the President and his advisers had no reason to provoke, and could not benefit from, creating a disturbance in the Capitol that would disrupt the legal process that was being followed. The only people with motives to disrupt the process were Pelosi, the IC leadership, and the DC mayor and police chief, that did not want the evidence of a sham election presented to the public on Jan 6.
The real scandal was the actions they took that undermined the security at the Capitol perimeter, opened the security doors to the building allowing the mob to pour in for the benefit of the media, and used agent-provocateurs like Ray Epps and others to agitate the mob thus short-circuiting the legitimate business of the Congress.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 7/20/2022 10:46:22 PM (No. 1223052)
Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election was about presenting evidence of cheating and fraud that was clearly evident in a number of states. That every court system in the country refused to view said evidence doesn't mean cheating and fraud didn't take place. Plus, in a couple of those contested states, it wasn't the state legislatures that confirmed the election results that the Constitution requires, but the court system of those states. That in and of itself was enough to question Pence as to why he approved those results.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
volksford 7/20/2022 10:52:50 PM (No. 1223055)
Well , here comes the shaft from this despicable body .
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/20/2022 10:54:16 PM (No. 1223060)
Note the difference in the report...Dems just "did it"
Repubs doing the same thing was "outsized,without evidence..false, misleading, false electors, without merit, Insurrection!"
"Democrats did it in 2001 and 2017 during the joint session of Congress after bitter electoral outcomes that saw their party out of power in the White House.
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."
The part I particularly disagree with is it prevents states from declaring a "Failed Election", and being able to have another, or decide in their own legislatures what to do about it. This would indemnify a failed process and force the unacceptable to be endorsed if enough delay is created...and via "Lawfare" such a delay is guaranteed.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/20/2022 11:03:36 PM (No. 1223066)
How is it that in a Dem controlled house/senate that THIS committee has more repubs than Dems? No other committee even has an even split...did the dems just recruit enough rhinos to overcome the "Partisan" label and name the ALL to the committee??
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/20/2022 11:49:17 PM (No. 1223085)
No on this bill. I do not support bipartisanship, a euphemism for we will be holding the short stick.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
judy 7/21/2022 12:19:19 AM (No. 1223098)
McConnell is a worthless leader ….another fake republican…all Trump wanted was a fair election.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Right Time 7/21/2022 8:37:42 AM (No. 1223339)
FTA: "...nine Republicans and seven Democrats, led by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and including Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,..."
Lindsey Graham is a Trump ally? Who knew?
So, again Trump was right. The existing law had a loophole that would have allowed Pence to Stop The Steal, but he wussed out. Now 9 RINOS join with the Dems to close that loophole.
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This will literally end Electoral College challenges, the threshold raised to 20 percent of members in each chamber of Congress. The UNIPARTY doesn't want to deal with these sorts of sticky things should they "influence" a future election. This would put the onus for honesty on the state legislatures. Good luck with that. BTW: This came from a committee of 16 senators, nine Republicans and seven Democrats, and is being fashioned into a bill.