Kamala Harris says reforming Electoral Count Act ‘not a solution to the problem at hand’

Published January 7, 2022 3:15am ET



Vice President Kamala Harris threw shade at the prospect of reforming presidential election procedures in Congress that could avert another last-ditch bid to overturn the results.

During an interview airing on the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot, PBS anchor Judy Woodruff told Harris that Democrats don’t appear to have enough support to pass voting rights legislation and asked why a Republican counteroffer to revise the Electoral Count Act, effectively changing the way the Electoral College vote count takes place, would not a be an acceptable compromise.

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