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Rep. Liz Cheney teamed up with a Democratic colleague on the House Jan. 6 committee to push a rewrite of the Electoral Count Act that they say will ensure “future efforts to attack the integrity of presidential elections can’t succeed.”
Ms. Cheney, Wyoming Republican, and Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat, plan to introduce legislation to make the fix. They said it is critical because former President Donald Trump continued claims that the 2020 election threatens to spur others to change the outcome of future elections.
“This raises the prospect of another effort to steal a presidential election, perhaps with another attempt to corrupt Congress’s proceeding to tally electoral votes,” the lawmakers wrote in an op-ed previewing the legislation in The Wall Street Journal.
The bill could get a vote in House as soon as this week. It could be the last bill authored by Ms. Cheney, who lost in the Republican primary last month because of intense blowback from GOP voters over her anti-Trump stance.
Ms. Cheney and Ms. Lofgren proposed four changes to the 1887 law that they say will ensure the U.S. does not again return to the brink.
The legislation would “reaffirm” that the vice president has “no authority or discretion to reject official state electoral states” or materially influence Congress’ electoral count while presiding over the proceedings.
