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Democrats and Republicans of good will must have no higher priority than bolstering U.S. democracy against a second attack of lies accompanied by cockamamie legal theories about how state legislatures, Congress or the courts could overturn election results based on invalid accusations of fraud. Key to doing so is rewriting the process for counting presidential electoral votes prescribed under the archaic Electoral Count Act.
Protections are needed so that a partisan Congress cannot try to reject presidential electors on a simple-majority basis. The bar needs to be raised for lawmakers even to object to electors, raising public doubts about U.S. democracy’s legitimacy. And it should be made absolutely clear that the vice president cannot unilaterally reject electors during the congressional count, as Mr. Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence to do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...gress-must-bolster-our-democratic-system-now/
Protections are needed so that a partisan Congress cannot try to reject presidential electors on a simple-majority basis. The bar needs to be raised for lawmakers even to object to electors, raising public doubts about U.S. democracy’s legitimacy. And it should be made absolutely clear that the vice president cannot unilaterally reject electors during the congressional count, as Mr. Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence to do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...gress-must-bolster-our-democratic-system-now/