After former President Donald Trump's legal team attempted to exploit unclear language, a bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) unveiled long-awaited bipartisan legislation.
Rudy Giuliani points to a map as he speaks to the press about a lawsuit. Drew Angerer poses for a picture.
The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act makes it clear that the role of the vice president in certifying election results is solely ministerial.
The bill raises the threshold for Congress to object to a state's electors and removes language that had been on the books since 1845.
There is a measure called the Presidential Transition Improvement Act that allows multiple candidates to receive transition resources during a period of time when the outcome of an election is not certain.
The Enhanced Election Security and Protection Act increases the jail time for intimidating election officials from one to two years.
The maximum penalty for tampering with election records is being raised.
The bills are expected to be passed by congress. The legislation was worked on by a 16-member working group that included nine Republican senators. The Senate needs ten Republican votes to pass a bill.
The bipartisan group of senators, led by Manchin and Collins, shared a vision of drafting legislation to fix the flaws of the Electoral Count Act. The act's obscure language was a factor in the legal strategies pursued by the Trump team.
The effort to overturn the election exposed serious flaws in the guidelines used to certify election results in the U.S. It was one of Trump's top strategies to stay in office to get Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of the results on January 6. Both efforts were addressed in the bills, and have been the subject of numerous January 6 commission hearings.
The staffer says that the vice president told Trump that he couldn't overturn the election results.
The speaker of Arizona says that Trump lied when he said he supported fraud claims.
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