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The Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) (Pub. L. 49–90, 24 Stat. 373, [1] later codified at Title 3, Chapter 1 [2]) is a United States federal law that added to procedures set out in the Constitution of the United States for the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election.
The new federal deadline came out of the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, a law that Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed as a way to try to prevent the kind of post-election chaos ...
The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 119th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act and Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, on January 6, 2025, was held as the final step that confirmed President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election over Kamala Harris.
Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act; Long title: To amend title 3, United States Code, to reform the Electoral Count Act, and to amend the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 to provide clear guidelines for when and to whom resources are provided by the Administrator of General Services for use in connection with the preparations for the assumption of official ...
In late 2022, lawmakers made several changes to the 1887 "Electoral Count Act." Congress initially passed the Electoral Count Act in response to the disputed election of 1876. Multiple states sent ...
These delays could make it difficult for swing states to meet the Electoral Count Reform Act’s deadlines for choosing electors (Election Day, November 5), certifying electors (December 11 ...
After a presidential election, [2] [3] the ascertainment is submitted by the governor of each state (and by the mayor of the District of Columbia) to the Archivist of the United States [4] [5] [6] and others, [7] in accordance with 3 U.S.C. §§ 6–14 [8] [9] the Electoral Count Act, [10] [11] and the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022.
The process they will follow is largely the same as the one that guided past quadrennial gatherings, though a new law called the Electoral Count Reform Act, passed in the aftermath of the 2021 ...