House passes Liz Cheney-backed election reform bill in Dem push to prevent another Trump ‘insurrecti

[mystery-ak]

September 21, 2022 5:08pm EDT
House passes Liz Cheney-backed election reform bill in Dem push to prevent another Trump ‘insurrection’
Republicans fumed they were not consulted on the bill, which would alter presidential election rules
By Peter Kasperowicz | Fox News

The House voted Wednesday to update the rules for congressional certification of presidential elections, a response to then-President Donald Trump’s questioning of the 2020 contest that Democrats and Republicans such as Rep. Liz Cheney say led to an attempted "insurrection."

The Presidential Election Reform Act was sponsored by the Wyoming Republican and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., both of whom serve on the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 election protest at the Capitol that turned violent. It passed the House with support from every Democrat and just nine Republicans.

Their bill targets Trump’s attempt to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to challenge the electoral vote count as it was taking place on Jan. 6, 2021. Democrats said the perception that Pence had the power to overturn the electoral count contributed to the Capitol Hill protest.

The bill that passed in the House on Wednesday amends the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to clarify that the vice president only has a ministerial role and cannot interfere with the process or make judgments about the validity of electoral college votes. Cheney said that language was aimed at preventing a repeat of Trump's actions.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-cheney-backed-election-reform-bill-dem-push-to-prevent-trump-insurrection

[Killer Clouds]

Quit calling Cheney a republican. She is not republican or conservative.

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Removed duplicate thread that hadn't yet received comments.

[EdinVA]

Their bill targets Trump’s attempt to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to challenge the electoral vote count as it was taking place on Jan. 6, 2021. Democrats said the perception that Pence had the power to overturn the electoral count

Make up your mind lizzy... is it challenge or overturn?

[mystery-ak]

House PASSES overhaul of rules to clarify vice president's role in counting electoral votes is purely ceremonial: Liz Cheney is among nine Reps joining Dems

    The House passed the bill 229-203, with nine Republicans voting for it
    House GOP leaders were whipping against the bill
    A similar version has gained support of 10 Republicans in the Senate
    Bill clarifies 'ceremonial' role for vice president in electoral vote count
    Trump and allies wanted then-VP Pence to refuse to accept Biden votes in 2020
    'This bill will prevent Congress from illegally choosing the president itself,' said Cheney, a co-author
    Republicans called it a political stunt two months before the election

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor For Dailymail.com

Published: 00:08 EDT, 21 September 2022 | Updated: 07:53 EDT, 22 September 2022

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11233681/House-vote-election-law-overhaul-response-Jan-6.html

[mystery-ak]

House Passes Liz Cheney’s Trojan Horse Elections Bill Enabling Democrat Takeover Of The Ballot Box
By: Tristan Justice
September 22, 2022

The House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to overhaul the 1887 Electoral Count Act and re-write election rules to benefit Democrats in presidential contests.

The bill, proposed by GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California who is under Cheney on the Jan. 6 Committee, reforms the 135-year-old law to narrow the grounds for objections to presidential electors and open the door to late-day voting.

Cheney’s “Presidential Election Reform Act” became the Democrats’ answer to their failed effort to override state election laws in H.R. 1, which Senate Republicans blocked last summer. The legislation carries some of the same provisions of the doomed election bill at the top of Democrats’ congressional agenda. Just nine Republicans supported the bill, all but one of whom supported President Donald Trump’s second impeachment and are either retiring or have lost their primaries.

New York Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, who co-chairs the Election Integrity Caucus, condemned the bill as “the latest attempt from House Democrats to stack the democratic process in their favor” and complained that the proposal did not go through the proper legislative process. The text was only released days before the Wednesday vote and received no bipartisan hearing or markup in committee.

“It is nothing more than a partisan messaging bill intended to score cheap political points weeks before an election,” Tenney said in a press release outlining the legislation’s flaws.

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https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/22/house-passes-liz-cheneys-trojan-horse-elections-bill-enabling-democrat-takeover-of-the-ballot-box/

[Right_in_Virginia]

The bill also makes it much harder for lawmakers to object to the validity of electoral votes. Currently, one member each from the House and Senate is needed to lodge an objection, but the bill would require one-third of both chambers before an objection can be heard.

It also requires states to determine their election results according to rules in place at the time of the election but allows states to extend elections in the event of a natural disaster that prevents a "substantial portion" of voters from voting or destroys or makes ballots unreadable.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-cheney-backed-election-reform-bill-dem-push-to-prevent-trump-insurrection

[catfish1957]

House Passes Liz Cheney’s Trojan Horse Elections Bill Enabling Democrat Takeover Of The Ballot Box
By: Tristan Justice
September 22, 2022

The House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to overhaul the 1887 Electoral Count Act and re-write election rules to benefit Democrats in presidential contests.

The bill, proposed by GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California who is under Cheney on the Jan. 6 Committee, reforms the 135-year-old law to narrow the grounds for objections to presidential electors and open the door to late-day voting.

Cheney’s “Presidential Election Reform Act” became the Democrats’ answer to their failed effort to override state election laws in H.R. 1, which Senate Republicans blocked last summer. The legislation carries some of the same provisions of the doomed election bill at the top of Democrats’ congressional agenda. Just nine Republicans supported the bill, all but one of whom supported President Donald Trump’s second impeachment and are either retiring or have lost their primaries.

New York Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, who co-chairs the Election Integrity Caucus, condemned the bill as “the latest attempt from House Democrats to stack the democratic process in their favor” and complained that the proposal did not go through the proper legislative process. The text was only released days before the Wednesday vote and received no bipartisan hearing or markup in committee.

“It is nothing more than a partisan messaging bill intended to score cheap political points weeks before an election,” Tenney said in a press release outlining the legislation’s flaws.

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https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/22/house-passes-liz-cheneys-trojan-horse-elections-bill-enabling-democrat-takeover-of-the-ballot-box/

The deepstated swamp is doing everything within their power to insulate themselves from being rooted out permanently.

This legislation itself is an insurrection trying undo electoral processes that our founding fathers enacted.

I hope Lizzie the bitch does some serious jail time within my lifetime.

[Right_in_Virginia]

“The bill broadly defines a ‘catastrophic event,’ which could be used to extend balloting for up to five days after the polls close in a presidential election,” Tenney said.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/22/house-passes-liz-cheneys-trojan-horse-elections-bill-enabling-democrat-takeover-of-the-ballot-box/

[Right_in_Virginia]

Just nine Republicans supported the bill, all but one of whom supported President Donald Trump’s second impeachment and are either retiring or have lost their primaries.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/22/house-passes-liz-cheneys-trojan-horse-elections-bill-enabling-democrat-takeover-of-the-ballot-box/

[catfish1957]

I feel sorry for the legislators come January 2025.  Its going to take months to undo all of Pedo Joe's shit.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The bill would clarify in the law that the vice president´s role presiding over the count is only ceremonial and that he or she cannot change the results.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11233681/House-vote-election-law-overhaul-response-Jan-6.html

The authority, indeed responsibility, the President of the Senate now has is to return challenged votes to the statehouses for review and recertification.

[Right_in_Virginia]

It also sets out that each state can only send one certified set of electors after Trump's allies had unsuccessfully tried to put together alternate slates of illegitimate pro-Trump electors in swing states where Biden won.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11233681/House-vote-election-law-overhaul-response-Jan-6.html

This is the state's call.

[GtHawk]

I hope this comes back to bite them in the A$$ when mumbling bungling Joe, or whoever the dems run loses 2024.

[Fishrrman]

catfish:
"I feel sorry for the legislators come January 2025.  Its going to take months to undo all of Pedo Joe's shit."

Regardless of who wins in 2024...
How much of this stuff do you really, REALLY think is ever going to be repealed...?