{"id":52513,"date":"2022-09-19T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52513"},"modified":"2022-09-19T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:14:48","slug":"jan-6-panel-members-offer-long-awaited-elections-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52513","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 panel members offer long-awaited elections reform bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reps.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29100838.24171\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvbGl6LWNoZW5leS8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB9d71c76b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29100838.24171\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvbGl6LWNoZW5leS8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB9d71c76b&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1663704912688000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0f9_EFivJGKHCvvhuddNG2\">Liz Cheney\u00a0<\/a>(R-Wyo.) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29100838.24171\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvem9lLWxvZmdyZW4vP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB3c532731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29100838.24171\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvem9lLWxvZmdyZW4vP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB3c532731&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1663704912688000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0I-gKlZ-Ti5tLZv5INLpuu\">Zoe Lofgren\u00a0<\/a>(D-Calif.), two members of the Jan. 6 House panel, introduced a bill Monday to reform the Electoral College Act, offering a number of provisions to protect elections from interference by state and federal lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Election Reform Act (PERA) would make clear that the role of the vice president in presiding over the counting of electoral votes is purely \u201cministerial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It also takes aim at potential action from the lawmakers\u2019 colleagues to object to states\u2019 electoral slates, requiring that a third of the members from both chambers must object to the certification, up from just one member for each chamber, while narrowing the grounds under which they can bring such an objection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reps.\u00a0Liz Cheney\u00a0(R-Wyo.) and\u00a0Zoe Lofgren\u00a0(D-Calif.), two members&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52514,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52513\/revisions\/52514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}