McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Mitch McConnell is signaling he's open to reforming the Electoral Count Act, one year after a mass of Republicans objected to certification of President Joe Biden’s win ahead of an attempted insurrection.

Democrats are pursuing more sweeping election reforms and federalization of elections, but some lawmakers in both parties are also suggesting there may be more modest reforms that could pass on a bipartisan basis. Centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema both endorsed pursuing work on the Electoral Count Act on Wednesday, as did a number of Republican senators.

The biggest move came from Senate Minority Leader McConnell, who Democrats theorize is merely trying to distract from their work on far more comprehensive election reform. Still, the GOP leader said in a brief interview that he would be open to entertaining changes to the 1887 law, which allows members of Congress to dispute election results.

“It obviously has some flaws. And it is worth, I think, discussing,” McConnell said Wednesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-cracks-door-to-electoral-count-act-reform/ar-AASsUcc

We'll see. I mean it's Moscow Mitch we're talking about here.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Never acts in good faith.

[femmedem]

2. My take: he's worried that unless he offers something, Manchin and Sinema will change their minds

and go along with a filibuster carveout to more effectively combat voter suppression.

[OnDoutside]

6. Yes.

[Silent3]

12. You got it! n/t

[ColinC]

3. I'll take it.

Reforming the electoral count act would be a pretty significant although small step towards preventing that shit show from last year.

[karynnj]

8. It could make things worse

Assume Republicans use the new state law to overturn a legit Democratic win and sens a Republican slate of electors. THAT should be contested and rejected.

[ColinC]

10. The counting of electoral votes has always been a formality

The only way to reasonably prevent that situation would be to make it illegal.

[OnDoutside]

4. It's all about the Delay...ffs, and Manchin will row in behind it.

[bluestarone]

13. THIS

Was my FIRST thought as well! DELAY!

[Walleye]

5. He was so outraged by the insurrection but still couldn't bring himself vote for impeachment.Pitiful

[Nevilledog]

7. This is planned. They'll vote for ECS if Democrats agree to ditch all other voter bills.

They don't care about the Electoral Count because they'll steal the elections before it ever gets that far.

[ibegurpard]

9. Nope

Considering what they're passing in various states this isn't even close to enough.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

11. I don't believe a thing the lyin Repub says n/t

[ecstatic]

14. Or we could just dump the EC and go with the popular vote?

As far as *itch McConnell, I don't believe a word he says. He dangles a carrot out there when he feels the heat and then we never hear about it ever again. We need to move forward whether he's on board or not!