[EL] Electoral Count Act changes

[Meredith McGehee]

Thought this might be of interest to this list.

How did the attack on the U.S. Capitol happen on January 6th? We know there are lots of reasons, including massive disinformation, but there is one contributing factor that’s easy to fix — update the Electoral Count Act (ECA).

While the ECA had clear legislative intent when it was passed in 1887, it is ambiguous, out of date, and added to the electoral chaos that we saw this year.

In the latest episode <https://www.swampstories.org/ep-31-regularly-given> of Swamp Stories, host Weston Wamp talks with Protect Democracy’s Genevieve Nadeau and Campaign Legal Center’s Matthew Seligman about how the ECA came to be, how it gave rise to confusion and misinterpretation about Congress’ role in the 2020 presidential election, and why Congress must update it now.


Meredith McGehee
Executive Director
Issue One/Issue One Action
mmcgehee at issueone.org
(202) 841-4400 (m)




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