Elected representatives of the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday in favor of modernizing a 135-year-old US law that Donald Trump’s allies had tried to exploit to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
With 50 days to go until the US midterm elections, electoral reform bills have returned to the US Congress. And for good reason, a host of Republican candidates still refuse to acknowledge Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 elections.
Specifically, the text eliminates any ambiguity about the status of the vice president in the certification of presidential elections, by limiting him to a purely symbolic role.
A way for elected officials to avoid the chaos of January 6, 2021, when thousands of Donald Trump supporters rushed to Capitol Hill to try to force Vice President Mike Pence and elected officials to change the election result.
Republican Opposition
“This bill will prevent Congress from illegally electing the president itself,” argued one of its authors, Republican-elect Liz Cheney.
She is one of the few from Donald Trump’s party who has agreed to serve on the US Congressional committee that has been investigating the former president’s role in the Capitol storming for more than a year.
All Democrats voted in favor of his text. The vast majority of Republicans opposed it. A competing bill is also being debated in the Senate, with a slightly higher chance of success.
But these two electoral reform projects, however, are not as comprehensive as Joe Biden’s grand plan in which the president promised to protect access to the polls for African Americans, which civil rights groups have strongly criticized.
The Republican opposition had opposed Joe Biden’s plan, claiming it gave Democrats the right to take control of the polls across the country.
Source: BFM TV
