Mitch McConnell's Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights
Mitch McConnell's Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights
McConnell has spent 30 years making the same arguments against voting rights.
By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
The Electoral Count Act, the law governing how Congress certifies presidential elections, is filled with gaps and ambiguities. But Democrats shouldn’t jump at the apparent willingness of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to overhaul it.
"Aside from all the other things they are discussing, this is something that’s worth discussing," McConnell said on Wednesday. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, echoed that view to NBC News. There may even be enough support across the aisle to overcome a filibuster in the closely divided Senate.
While changes to the law’s vague, easily twisted language are important to prevent another round of the chaos that former President Donald Trump inspired last year, McConnell knows better than anyone that reforming the Electoral Count Act absent “all the other things” Democrats want in terms of voting rights would be a new coat of paint on a house that’s about to collapse.
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McConnell has spent 30 years making the same arguments against voting rights.
By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
The Electoral Count Act, the law governing how Congress certifies presidential elections, is filled with gaps and ambiguities. But Democrats shouldn’t jump at the apparent willingness of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to overhaul it.
"Aside from all the other things they are discussing, this is something that’s worth discussing," McConnell said on Wednesday. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, echoed that view to NBC News. There may even be enough support across the aisle to overcome a filibuster in the closely divided Senate.
While changes to the law’s vague, easily twisted language are important to prevent another round of the chaos that former President Donald Trump inspired last year, McConnell knows better than anyone that reforming the Electoral Count Act absent “all the other things” Democrats want in terms of voting rights would be a new coat of paint on a house that’s about to collapse.
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