(Washington) The elected House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of the modernization of a 135-year-old American law that the allies of Donald Trump had tried to exploit to modify the result of the presidential election of 2020.
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Fifty days before the US midterm elections, electoral reform projects have made a comeback in the US Congress. And for good reason, a large number of Republican candidates still refuse to recognize Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
Concretely, the text removes any ambiguity on the status of the vice-president in the certification of the presidential elections, by limiting it to a purely symbolic role.
A way for elected officials to avoid the chaos of January 6, 2021, when thousands of Donald Trump supporters rushed to the Capitol to try to force Vice President Mike Pence and elected officials to change the result of the election.
“This bill will prevent Congress from choosing the president itself illegally,” argued one of its authors, the elected Republican Liz Cheney.
She is one of the few from Donald Trump’s party to have agreed to sit on the US Congressional committee which has been investigating the former president’s role in the Capitol assault for more than a year.
All Democrats voted in favor of his text. The vast majority of Republicans opposed it.
A competing bill is also being debated in the Senate, with a slightly better chance of success.
But these two electoral reform projects are, however, nowhere near as comprehensive as Joe Biden’s grand plan with which the president promised to protect access to the ballot box for African Americans, which civil rights groups have harshly criticized. critical.
The Republican opposition had been upwind against Joe Biden’s plan, ensuring that he gave the Democrats the right to take control of the polls across the country.