Senators Introduce Reforms to the Electoral Count Act of 1887

https://www.collins.senate.gov/ ^ | July 20, 2022

[redgolum]

I have a book on the 1876 election in my TBR pile, but I am wondering if I remember the situation correctly.

Wasn’t there a few different elector slates sent in from the same states?

I stumbled across a mention of the contested election being worse than the allegations of 2020, and I bought the book but never got around to starting it yet.

You bring up a good point, but what happens if say, Texas ends up with TWO sets of electors presented via a split state government? Wasn’t that the reason they made the law?

I am going to go home and dig the book out the pile tonight, but trying to remember the set up of it.

[redgolum]

This the book I was talking about

By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D9WKLSG/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

[Robert A Cook PE]

So, will this PROHIBIT the Democrat Party’s scheme to recalculate states’ Electoral College results using only the national percentages (national popular vote) numbers?

[Red Badger]

ALL THE USUAL SUSPECTS...................

[RideForever]

simply cannot override a slate of electoral votes certified by a state under any circumstances

I don't see the word 'one' in your original statement, which is why I rarely respond to your posts.

[Lazamataz]

Rob Portman (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Todd Young (R-IN), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

All the usual suspects. That's why I know this bill is bad for us all.

[Lazamataz]

Yep

[SunkenCiv]

None of that list of jokers can be trusted with a burned-out match.

Over the history of our country, there have been at least 700 proposed amendments to modify or abolish the Electoral College - more than any other subject of Constitutional reform.

https://www.fairvote.org/past_attempts_at_reform