The differences between Senate and House versions are relatively minor. Time is running...
in the Senate. The House bill was approved in that chamber and the Senate bill was sent to the floor but awaits a vote. Each would make it clear that the vice president has no role in validating a presidential election beyond the symbolic. The bills would expand the threshold required for members of both the House and Senate to object to a state’s electoral-college results.
What lawmakers are trying to reform is a 135-year-old law known as the Electoral Count Act that, as written, is sufficiently vague and confusing enough to possibly overturn the will of the voters. In fact, it almost did. It’s the law that an egomaniacal Donald Trump and his White House plotters relied on in their efforts to invalidate the results of the 2020 election and keep him in office.
The Senate version, sponsored by Maine Republican Susan Collins and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, attracted the support of nine Republicans during negotiations over the summer; 10 are needed to overcome a Senate filibuster. Since then, two more Republican senators, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, have voiced support.
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