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Hey everyone, Ellie here, bringing you my weekly note to the cafe community.

As always, please keep sending your thoughts, comments, or questions,

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Up until last year, I managed to go two decades as a lawyer without ever thinking about or even really knowing about the Electoral Count Act of 1887. The law's obscurity was a testament

to the strength of our democracy. We were on autopilot every four years.

States sent their electoral votes into Congress.

The votes were counted up at some rote ceremony.

And then the person we had elected in November took the oath of office in January.

Peaceful transfer of power.

Done and done.

Those were simpler times, of course. Now we've been through Donald Trump

in the 2020 election and his dogged lies about election fraud and a coup attempt that culminated

on January 6th. But let's remember that the effort by Trump and his sycophants to steal the election

turned largely on manipulation of this deeply flawed law, the Electoral Count

Act. And that coup attempt came closer to succeeding than it ever should have, in large part

because the act is equal parts confusing and nuts. So let's walk through the act. It's not easy

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