There's a treasure trove of bad decisions and nonsense buried inside the $1.7 trillion spending bill Congress is considering. But there is also something genuinely good, and essential, namely, the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act.
This bill would prevent a replay of the shady legal shenanigans and mob violence unleashed on Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, when the electoral votes from the 2020 elections were formally counted.
As Sen. Rand Paul wrote in the Louisville Courier Journal, the proposed reforms are meant to preserve the Electoral College and remove the ambiguities the major parties have exploited for their own cynical purposes:
The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act is a bipartisan bill designed to ensure that Congress obeys state law. Unless the laws or constitution of a state identify another official to do so, the reformed Electoral Count Act designates the governor to certify the state's presidential electors to prevent different officials from sending competing slates of electors to Congress.
Additionally, the bill makes clear that the Vice President is to play a solely ministerial role in the counting of electoral votes.
The legislation also increases the threshold that would trigger a congressional debate on objections to a state's election results to one-fifth of each the House and Senate, meaning that the transfer of power would not provide an occasion for frivolous challenges.
Paul adds that it will ensure state election results are respected and the Electoral College's continued survival, as the Constitution's framers intended. He continues:
Conservatives should realize that reforming the Electoral Count Act is necessary to protect the Electoral College from left-wing attempts to abandon it completely.
Or right-wing attempts to undermine the electoral process entirely.
Either way, Electoral College reform is essential not just because it will shut down opportunities for major party mischief but also because it will reinforce a fundamental piece of our national political structure. That's good politics and good government.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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