Concerned about potential problems during the next election when Congress counts presidential votes, some legislators are interested in reforming the federal law that governs that process, the ...

Many lawmakers in Congress appear to have made the same new year’s resolution: to rewrite the Electoral Count Act of 1887, or ECA. Democrats have floated reforms to the law that governs the ...

There’s an old saw about a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil – and consequentially spawning a tornado in Texas. One could argue there’s an equivalent of the "Butterfly Effect" in American ...

Lawmakers are quietly discussing trying to make changes to the formal counting of the Electoral College results, a year after dozens of Republicans, with then-President Trump‘s backing, challenged the ...

Moderate senators are increasingly optimistic they can come to a compromise on reforms to the Electoral Count Act (ECA) aimed at clarifying its provisions after former President Donald Trump tried to ...

A bill to reform and strengthen the Electoral Count Act that aims at heading off future attempts to subvert presidential elections is expected to be considered by the House as soon as Wednesday. The ...

American democracy was pushed to the brink last year when former President Donald Trump and his allies attempted to stop the peaceful transfer of power and overturn the result of a free and fair ...

Donald Trump falsely said Sunday Pence "could have overturned the Election!" With voting rights legislation all but dead in the Senate, and the former president now openly suggesting he tried to use a ...

Out of the ashes of Democrats’ failed effort to set a national voting rights standard may come a targeted bipartisan bill to ward against insurrection 2.0. At issue is the Electoral Count Act, the ...

Derek T. Muller does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...