Did you know that up until December 2022, there had been no significant changes to an 1887 law that governs how votes are certified once in congress for presidential elections? Did you also know the original law was created due to a deadlocked 1876 congress and subsequent close elections in 1880 and 1884? Find out how a vaguely written law still impacted elections until recently and what the reform of that law means for future elections.
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Interesting 2023 Laws
Sources:
- https://www.foxla.com/news/new-california-laws-2023-january-1
- https://abc7chicago.com/new-illinois-laws-2023-full-list-in/12544823/
Dept of Transportation Investigation of Southwest Airlines
Sources:
- https://www.axios.com/2022/12/27/transportation-department-southwest-airlines-flight-cancellations
- https://twitter.com/USDOT/status/1607558478859759616
- https://swamedia.com/releases/release-7e05ea1637937dc7354128bee7527c20-winterstormelliott
Main Topic Sources:
- 3 U.S. Code subsection 15- Counting electoral votes in congress (text)- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/15
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Act
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022
- https://www.collins.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/one_pager_on_electoral_count_reform_act_of_2022.pdf
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4573/text
- https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/98/
- https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/u-s-senate-passes-electoral-count-reform-act/
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