Washington, July 20. A group of bipartisan U.S. senators on Wednesday unveiled reform that would offer greater guarantees to election recounts by clarifying that the vice president does not have the power to rescind presidential election results and making it harder for lawmakers to challenge them place.
His proposal updates the 1887 election law that former Republican President Donald Trump accepted in the 2020 election to show that his then-Vice President Mike Pence had the right to change the scrutiny that gave Democrat Joe Biden the win.
Again, this first law was created after the contentious 1876 election, in which Democrat Samuel Tilden gained more votes but lost the presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes after challenges from three Southern states.
The new bill, which will come after months of negotiations, is being promoted by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and Republican Susan Collins.
His approval in the upper house, where Democrats have a narrow majority, will require the support of ten Republicans, although nine have already been part of the negotiating group.
The presentation coincides with investigations into the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the day 800 people managed to enter the building to boycott certification, buoyed by suspicions that November’s elections might be in the offing cheating had been Biden’s victory.
Currently, it only takes one member of the House of Representatives and one member of the Senate to object, and the deal now reached would raise that threshold to one-fifth in both institutions.
The bill, introduced two years before the next presidential election, which does not bar Biden from running again, also extends the sentence for those who threaten candidates, voters and poll workers from one to two years.
“This framework is a crucial step towards ending the ambiguity. We call on our colleagues in both parties to support these simple and sensible reforms,” the bipartisan group urged in a statement.