July 28th, 2022 by WCBC Radio
A bipartisan group of senators proposed new legislation last week to modernize the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act, working to overhaul a law that President Donald Trump tried to manipulate on Jan. 6, 2021, in an apparent effort to halt Congress’s certification of his election defeat. Among those backing the bill, senators Ben Cardin of Maryland and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The legislation aims to guarantee a peaceful transition from one president to the next, after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol exposed how the current law could be manipulated to disrupt the process. The legislation would also clarify that the vice president has no discretion over the results, and it would set out the steps to begin a presidential transition. Cardin said while the current law had worked for more than a 100 years- the abuse of that law by the former president led both parties to clarify and tighten the language…
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