Proposed election reform could change Electoral Count Act. Here's how.
Both chambers of Congress have introduced legislation to update the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act.
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Both chambers of Congress have introduced legislation to update the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act.
Today we're answering a listener question about certifying the Electoral College vote. Namely: what is with all of the downtime between the date when the electors meet to vote and the day those votes get counted in Congress? Is it a holdover from the days of slow travel and horse drawn carriage? Is it about our molasses bureaucracy? Read on or listen to this short episode for the answer. Do you have a question for the team at Civics 101? Ask us! Civics 101 has actually danced around this question in a few ways from our episode on the lame duck period to the process of counting your ballo...