The devious reason McConnell is making nice with Democrats on a key election law

[CousinIT]

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-s-electoral-count-act-offer-poison-pill-voting-n1287209

The Electoral Count Act, the law governing how Congress certifies presidential elections, is filled with gaps and ambiguities. But Democrats shouldn’t jump at the apparent willingness of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to overhaul it.

"Aside from all the other things they are discussing, this is something that’s worth discussing," McConnell said on Wednesday. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, echoed that view to NBC News. There may even be enough support across the aisle to overcome a filibuster in the closely divided Senate.

While changes to the law’s vague, easily twisted language are important to prevent another round of the chaos that former President Donald Trump inspired last year, McConnell knows better than anyone that reforming the Electoral Count Act absent “all the other things” Democrats want in terms of voting rights would be a new coat of paint on a house that’s about to collapse.

McConnell’s modus operandi throughout his years in the Senate has been to block, stymie and otherwise subvert changes to federal election law that he believes would disadvantage Republicans. In his view, anything beyond the status quo — whether it’s more transparent elections or easier voter participation — must be treated as a partisan attack and defeated.

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So why, then, is McConnell showing his willingness to take up reforms to the Electoral Count Act? Because he knows that offering the chance for a bipartisan win is tempting to many moderate Democrats. A stand-alone bill on the Electoral Count Act could sap the unified Democratic support for the Freedom to Vote Act. Moreover, that kind of bipartisan cooperation would also likely undercut any momentum toward reforming the filibuster to carve out an exception for voting rights, leaving red states free to make the ballot box as inaccessible as possible.

[pwb]

1. We need an audit the red state elections law.

When pukes say look over here, look over there.

[edhopper]

2. The changes he is promoting

will allow the States to give their Electoral votes anyway they want. Including have the legislature ignore the popular vote and decide the outcome.

[modrepub]

3. Anything That Lets the POTUS Not Reflect

the person who won the most votes is just more crap. And I'm talking counting ALL US citizen votes, including from US territories and protectorates.

[KS Toronado]

4. Moscow Mitch always has something up his sleeve

DON'T TRUST HIM!

[crickets]

5. K&R for visibility.