Congress eyes strongest response yet to Jan. 6 attack

BidenPresident said:
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are voting this week on changes to a 19th century law for certifying presidential elections, their strongest legislative response yet to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

The vote to overhaul the Electoral Count Act, expected Wednesday, comes as a bipartisan group of senators is moving forward with a similar bill. Lawmakers in both parties have said they want to change the arcane law before it is challenged again.

https://apnews.com/article/2022-mid...lection-2020-2eb7ce4953da28532b62b0bb71f2f657
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Demmycrats have 100 days left to pass the laws they want in place......surprisingly they will not be laws to fix immigration, repair the economy, grow jobs or improve the lives of Americans.......I take that back........its not that surprising.......
 
BidenPresident said:
Like the Senate bill, the House legislation would require that there is a single set of electors from each state submitted by the governor. The House bill would also narrow the grounds on which members of Congress could object to any state’s electoral votes and raise the threshold for how many objections would be needed. Currently, the House and Senate each debate and vote on whether to accept a state’s electors if there is just one objection from each chamber.

The House bill would require instead that a third of the House and a third of the Senate object to a particular state’s electors in order to hold a vote. The Senate bill would require that a fifth of each chamber object.

https://apnews.com/article/2022-mid...lection-2020-2eb7ce4953da28532b62b0bb71f2f657
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why should that matter so long as you need 51% of the votes to prevent a state's chosen electors from casting their vote?.....are you that afraid of debate?.....
 
Liz Cheney's last desperate grasp at relevance... After all, she's gone come January when whoever Montana elects in November to replace her takes her seat, be it a Republican (likely) or Democrat...
 
Celticguy said:
No. They are claiming it is unclear. Its not. It is written in the vernacular of the day.

It seems that 2020 was not the first time there have been issues regarding the validity on electoral ballots (ergo this bill). Team Donkey didnt like that all it took was one senator objecting to throw a spanner into the works so they mean to remove this protection meant to insure the will of the people is heard.
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well said.....
 
BidenPresident said:
The House bill reaffirms that the vice president's role in Congress' certification of the newly elected president is ceremonial and that he or she has no power to suspend or overturn the certification.

Trump and his allies in Congress had urged then-Vice President Mike Pence to stop the process and challenged various states' results as they falsely claimed Biden's victory was the result of voter fraud. Pence declined.

The legislation would toughen the standards for members of Congress to raise objections to any state's certification. At present, only one member from the House and one from the Senate are required. Under the bill, that would change to one-third of the 435-member House and 100-member Senate.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/jan-6-attack-prompts-us-house-launch-makeover-1887-law-2022-09-19/
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we don't need ceremony......this is not the queen's funeral........
 
PostmodernProphet said:
underscore this.....why do they pretend its merely a "ceremony"?.........
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because anything else means fraud can be overlooked.

any election that required having the Supreme Court intervene to make the state follow its own rules (I'm looking at you Pennsylvania) is by its nature suspect.
 
Celticguy said:
because anything else means fraud can be overlooked.

any election that required having the Supreme Court intervene to make the state follow its own rules (I'm looking at you Pennsylvania) is by its nature suspect.
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What about a state that sends fake electors?
 
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