McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform (Politico)

[corbe]

McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform

By Burgess Everett - 5h ago

Mitch McConnell is signaling he's open to reforming the Electoral Count Act, one year after Senate and House Republicans objected to certification of President Joe Biden’s win ahead of an attempted insurrection.

Democrats are pursuing more sweeping election reforms and federalization of elections, but some lawmakers in both parties are also suggesting there may be more modest reforms that could pass on a bipartisan basis. The GOP leader said in a brief interview that he would be open to entertaining changes to the 1887 law, which allows members of Congress to dispute election results.

“It obviously has some flaws. And it is worth, I think, discussing,” McConnell said Wednesday.

Senate Democrats plan to hold votes on broader election reforms by Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is threatening to change the Senate rules if McConnell leads another GOP filibuster. They want to pass anti-gerrymandering legislation, enshrine Election Day as a holiday and beef up early voting, though doing so would require Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to agree to weaken the filibuster to jam through that legislation on a party-line vote. Republicans almost uniformly oppose Democrats' proposals.

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[Kamaji]

Well, that depends on how long the "discussing" will go on, and is contingent on there being no "passing the bill" after the "discussing".

[LegalAmerican]

By the time VOTER FRAUD is proven, it will be 2024. Typical, kick the can down the road.  I loathe China McConnell. 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA8a2g6tTp0&t=4s

[Smokin Joe]

Vote in person.
Show ID--verify identity.
Vote only once.
You have to be breathing (alive).
No more computer counts.

[Kamaji]

Vote in person.
Show ID--verify identity.
Vote only once.
You have to be breathing (alive).
No more computer counts.

Add to that, for federal elections, the voter must be a citizen, and if s/he has a criminal record, voting rights must have been restored, and eligibility to vote must otherwise be established before the ballot will even be accepted, let alone counted (i.e., no more provisional ballots).

[libertybele]

"Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is threatening to change the Senate rules if McConnell leads another GOP filibuster"...Whatever Chuckie wants Mitch will hand it to him.