Bipartisan push to update to electors law unveiled
Senators strive to fix weaknesses Trump, supporters exploited
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
Published: August 3, 2022, 6:16pm
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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Joe Manchin made the case on Wednesday for overhauling the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act, pushing for quick passage of a bipartisan compromise that would make it harder for a losing candidate to overturn legitimate results of a presidential election.
Proposals from their group of 16 senators — nine Republicans and seven Democrats — are a response to former President Donald Trump and his allies pushing courts, state legislatures and Congress to somehow overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
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