Mitch McConnell's Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights

[Nevilledog]

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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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[madamesilverspurs]

1. McConnell IS a poison pill.

What he has done to the Senate and to the country is beyond forgiving.


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[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Wish the turtle

Would take a poison pill.

[bluestarone]

3. We cannot let this WEASEL detour us

Keep our eyes on the voting rights act WE WANT! FUCK HIM!!!