Senators are close to releasing a bill to stop candidates from stealing elections

[AntivaxHunters]

Hmmmm this sounds interesting. To be honest though, I am a bit hesitant because it is after all a "bipartisan bill", and we all know Republicans are down with "the big lie".

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a series of provisions to reform the Electoral Count Act, a move aimed at clarifying the role of the vice president and Congress in confirming the winner of a presidential election in the wake of Jan. 6. The working group is finalizing legislation and expects to release text as early as next week.

“We’re very close. We’ve got a few technical issues that we need to iron out, and I’m very hopeful that we’ll have a bill early next week — or bills,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters Wednesday. “That’s one of the issues that we’re deciding: whether it’s better to introduce more than one bill or one bill.”

The working group met Wednesday afternoon to hash out the remaining issues and are close to a deal they hope both parties can support. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have both blessed the bipartisan talks aimed at closing loopholes in election law. And Collins anticipates broad support for what they introduce, saying the group has gotten input from the transition councils of both former President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama’s administrations.

The senators were on the brink of a deal last month but hit pause on talks after a number of members in the election group began negotiating a gun violence prevention bill. The talks have continued amid public hearings by the Jan. 6 committee in which members argue Trump sought to exploit loopholes in the system to keep power after his 2020 defeat.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-are-close-releasing-bill-stop-candidates-stealing-elections-rcna38199

[ratchiweenie]

1. I don't see how this will make any difference when the states are changing their own laws so the

legislatures will choose the electors instead of the voters. Several have already began working on this.

[AntivaxHunters]

2. Ya I was wondering that too....

[DarthDem]

3. Text of the article says that's included

I'd wait to see the language of the bill before panicking.

[ratchiweenie]

5. I will be curious to see how they can dictate how states write their own election laws. Don't see

how they can do anything about those. Guess we will have to wait and see.

[DarthDem]

7. It's a federal election

The "independent state legislatures" garbage theory derives from the Constitution and federal statute. It's clear that Congress can write a new law clearing up the potential for mischief.

[CentralMass]

4. Well if Susan Collins has a hand in it, it has to have been ok'd by the monied interests that

own her.

[BComplex]

6. Are the republicans afraid that Kamala Harris would do what trump wanted pence to do?

And WHAT, I want to know, are they going to do about legislatures in red and purple states NOT being able to change what the voters want. That's something that has to stop before it ever gets started.