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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://techhub.social/users/artemesia/statuses/113386882074330854">Artemesia (artemesia@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:17:44 JST</a><a href="https://techhub.social/@artemesia" title="artemesia@techhub.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/174132-48-20231118073351.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Artemesia" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Artemesia</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113386864850241741" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/36733" title="gottalaff@mastodon.social">Laffy</a></li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff">@GottaLaff</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel">@emptywheel</a> </p><p>I don't know what Kinzinger is smoking or whether something got garbled in transcription, but state legislatures have zero role in certifying elections. That is done by the governor, as was made law in 2022. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022#State_procedures" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022#State_procedures</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3895631#notice-7614514">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-10-29T05:17:44+09:00" title="Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:17:44 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://techhub.social/@artemesia/113386882074330854" rel="external" title="Sent from techhub.social via ActivityPub">techhub.social</a></span></span><a href="https://techhub.social/@artemesia/113386882074330854">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022#State_procedures">Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022</a></h5><div></div></header><div>The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 is a revision of the Electoral Count Act of 1887, adding to procedures set out in the Constitution of the United States for the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election. It also amended the Presidential Transition Act.
The Act was passed on 23 December 2022 by the 117th Congress, and signed into law by President Joe Biden as Division P of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023.BackgroundThe act is intended to prevent a repeat of the chaos that followed Donald Trump's refusal to concede and fake electors plot following the 2020 United States presidential election. This led to a delay in the transition to the Biden administration, as well as a movement to have Vice President Mike Pence block the formal certification of the election results. The act addressed issues such as these by allowing some transition to begin even when an election result is unclear, and clarified the vice president's role in the certification of electoral votes.Legislative history
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Artemesia (artemesia@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:17:44 JSTArtemesia
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I don't know what Kinzinger is smoking or whether something got garbled in transcription, but state legislatures have zero role in certifying elections. That is done by the governor, as was made law in 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022#State_procedures
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  Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022
  The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 is a revision of the Electoral Count Act of 1887, adding to procedures set out in the Constitution of the United States for the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election. It also amended the Presidential Transition Act. The Act was passed on 23 December 2022 by the 117th Congress, and signed into law by President Joe Biden as Division P of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. Background The act is intended to prevent a repeat of the chaos that followed Donald Trump's refusal to concede and fake electors plot following the 2020 United States presidential election. This led to a delay in the transition to the Biden administration, as well as a movement to have Vice President Mike Pence block the formal certification of the election results. The act addressed issues such as these by allowing some transition to begin even when an election result is unclear, and clarified the vice president's role in the certification of electoral votes. Legislative history The...

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