McConnell: I will support the bipartisan, modest Electoral Count Act changes

Via NRO:

“It raises the threshold for objecting to the electoral count — preserving options if something incredibly unlikely were to happen, but ensuring claims with hardly any support can’t paralyzing the process.

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“It makes the already plain fact of the 12th Amendment even clearer: that the Vice President has never had, and will never have, discretionary powers over the counting.

“It protects states’ primacy in appointing their electors, but ensures they publicize the rules before the election.

“It rejects unwise changes like creating new causes of action that would leave every election up to the courts and create uncertainty.

“It makes modest technical updates to other pertinent laws, such as the Presidential Transitions Act.

“And Senator Collins’s bill does all these modest but important things without capitulating to our Democratic colleagues’ obsession with a sweeping federal takeover of all election law.”

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