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Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, and Zoe Lofgren, D-California, said Monday that the vice president has no authority to interfere in the counting of electoral votes in a presidential election. has been introduced.
The Presidential Election Reform Act is the culmination of the work of two members of Congress on a task force investigating the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol. Cheney is one of only his two Democrats on a committee that has last year investigated what they describe as an attempted coup to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Cheney and Republican Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger said demonstrators who showed up at the Capitol on Jan. 6 were directed by former President Donald Trump, who refused to count on Vice President Mike Pence. He supported the Democrats’ conclusion that they pressured him to do so. Electoral votes from a particular state in its role as president during a joint session of Congress in which votes are tallied.
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Over the weekend, Cheney and Lofgren wrote an op-ed that said Trump continued to make “deliberately false election fraud allegations,” raising the possibility of “another attempt to steal the presidential election.” There is
Their bill, which is likely to go to the House of Representatives this week, is an attempt to close the opportunity for political parties and presidential candidates to create uncertainty about the outcome of the election. Make it clear that you are there only to
The bill states that “the role of the chairman is ministerial.” The Vice President adds that he “has no authority to determine or resolve disputes concerning the proper listing of state electors, the validity of state electors, or the voting of state electors.”
“[T]The Speaker may not order a delay in counting the electoral votes or order the President for any period of delay in counting the electoral votes,” the bill added.
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The proposal would make it much more difficult for members of Congress to challenge any state’s electoral votes. Today, only her one member of the House and Senate is required to dissent, which could prompt lengthy debates and votes against.
But Cheney and Lofgren’s bill would require a third of all members of both the House and Senate to vote, making the bar for interrupting the tally much higher.
The bill also creates new requirements for state governors to send presidential election results to Washington. Governors must certify results by December 14 at the latest, and those results must be sent to U.S. archivists.
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Governors who fail to achieve this could face lawsuits from presidential candidates. But as Cheney and Lofgren pointed out in their op-eds, those challenges will come before Congress meets to count the votes on January 6. They said this should help ensure “the parliamentary proceedings on 6 January are purely ministerial.”
The bill also writes to federal law that states can delay presidential elections by up to five days in the event of a catastrophic event that dramatically complicates the voting process. Presidential candidates can petition the courts to stay these cases.
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The bill is likely to pass the House this week, with support from Democrats who continue to warn of Trump’s influence in the Republican Party. On the other hand, many Republicans are likely to object as the product of committees they are not allowed to participate with members of their own choosing. It rejected the two Republican nominations, and in response, Republican leaders boycotted it.
Evidence of Republican anger at the commission could also be seen in Cheney’s primary loss in Wyoming in August.