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The Byron York Show

Kevin Kosar On Reforming The Electoral Count Act

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast Byron is joined by Kevin Kosar to talk about the Electoral Count Act and why there is a need for it to be reformed. They get into the history of it and how it could effect our future of politics.

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0:00.0

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0:21.5

Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the No-Chit-Chit podcast. We'd like to get right into it

0:26.3

and what we're going to get into today is the Electoral Count Act. You've been seeing the

0:30.8

January 6th Committee in the House. It's kind of a Get Trump Committee. They're just interested

0:35.6

in going after the former president, but you know, as a House Committee, they actually have to have

0:40.5

a legislative purpose they can't indict anybody. They actually have to work towards some sort

0:44.8

of legislation. And a lot of people agree that the most important bit of legislation that could come

0:51.2

from January 6th is Reform of the Electoral Count Act, the 19th Century Act that governs

0:58.6

how elections are certified in Congress. So there are a lot of people working on reform. You may

1:04.9

have seen recently that there's an actual bill, a bipartisan bill produced in the Senate to

1:09.6

reform the Electoral Count Act. So we're going to talk about that today. We actually have a guess

1:13.9

today. Kevin Kosar is with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington and has been writing about

1:21.2

the Electoral Count Act and actually consulting with some of the reformers on Capitol Hill and

1:26.6

elsewhere. So we're going to talk about the act. So Kevin, thanks very much for joining us on the

1:31.4

Byron York Show. Thanks for having me. First of all, tell us what is the Electoral Count Act and what

1:36.8

does it do? So our Constitution is a wonderful miraculous document and all of it should venerate it.

1:44.8

However, it has its share of imperfections, one of which was it has next to no details on how

1:52.2

Congress is supposed to receive state's electoral slates when we go through the process of voting

1:59.4

for presidency and to count them. And this problem first flared up in an immense way in the 1870s

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