McConnell backs Senate's Electoral Count Act bill
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said on Tuesday that he supports the Electoral Count Reform Act, which aims to protect future elections by making changes to the 1887 Electoral College Act.
McConnell’s support gives a big boost to the legislation backed by Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), which is aimed at responding in part to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. That took place as Congress was trying to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“I strongly support the Collins legislation as introduced, and assuming that we make no changes here today, or at the most technical changes, I’ll be proud to vote for it and to help advance it,” McConnell said in a floor speech prior to the Rules Committee markup of the bill.
McConnell is taking on former President Trump by backing the bill. Trump has pressed Republicans to oppose the legislation, and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) voted against a House version of the bill approved last week.
The Electoral Count Reform Act would clarify some procedures described by the 1887 law, including the roles of state and federal governments in verifying the election of a president.
Specifically, the act introduces reforms to recognize a single, conclusive slate of electors in each state, declare that the vice president’s role in the election is “solely ministerial” and raises the threshold for objecting to a state’s Electoral College results.
These changes would make it more difficult to make the kinds of challenges to the 2020 presidential election that took place on Jan. 6. On that day, after weeks in which Trump had insisted without evidence that the election had been stolen from him, a mob invaded the Capitol, forcing the evacuation of lawmakers and then-Vice President Pence.
Many in the mob thought Pence could stop the results of the certification of the Electoral College by a joint session of Congress. The law also allows one member of the House and one member of the Senate from a state’s congressional delegation to object to their state’s Electoral College results, which forces votes by the full House and Senate on the objection.
The newly introduced bill results from recommendations made by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
Its text addresses multiple issues at the forefront of the 2020 presidential election, including the vice president’s authority in certifying elections and the roles of state governors and electors.
The House bill that was approved in a 229-203 vote last week is known as the Presidential Election Reform Act.
The nine Republicans who backed the bill included the two members of the party on the Jan. 6 committee, Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), as well as others who have been critical of the 2021 insurrection.
The Senate and House proposals differ in a few ways, including a provision in the House bill specifying that only scenarios like natural disasters qualify as a “catastrophic event” that could delay an election.
McConnell referred to the House bill as a “non-starter” in his speech on Tuesday but did not explain why he took that view.
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