GOP asks court to determine when Trump’s electors are supposed to cast their votes
The lawsuit comes after the Legislature failed to pass a proposal to bring Wisconsin in line with a new federal deadline outlining electoral requirements.
By Alexander Shur | December 9, 2024, 2:48pm EST
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The new designated day arose as a result of the new federal law, commonly called the Electoral Count Reform Act. Congress designed the law in 2022 to prevent the post-election chaos that then-President Donald Trump and his allies created after the 2020 election, which culminated in efforts to send fake electoral votes to Congress, block certification of legitimate electoral votes, and then storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The new federal law sets specific schedules for certifying election results and casting electoral votes. It cleared up ambiguities contained in the previous version of the law, which was enacted in 1887 but never updated until two years ago.
As of mid-October, 15 states had updated their laws to comply with the Electoral Count Reform Act, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. A Wisconsin proposal to bring the state in line with the new federal law passed the Senate nearly unanimously in February. But it never received a vote in the Assembly.
“It would have been beneficial if Wisconsin had also done that,” Godar said.
https://www.votebeat.org/wisconsin/2024/12/09/presidential-elector-meeting-date-dec-17-ecra-republican-lawsuit/
Their law had apparently been on the books for some time but was never updated when the revisions to the Electoral Count Act went into effect in 2022. The state then begrudgingly started to update their law but obviously pooh-poohed around in the State House (possibly with the expectation that Biden or Harris might win and they could generate some chaos, but obviously that didn't happen so now the boomerang has smacked them in the face).
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