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    Editorial: Why our dangerously outmoded election laws matter

    Now that efforts by congressional Democrats to pass major voting rights legislation have collapsed, Washington’s attention has turned to the urgent task of saving democracy. At issue is the closing of loopholes and strengthening of the sadly outmoded and dangerously confusing Electoral Count Act of 1887, a poorly written and dangerously outmoded law that governs the mammoth task of counting ...
    by The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune Feb 10, 2022 3 minutes

    Now that efforts by congressional Democrats to pass major voting rights legislation have collapsed, Washington’s attention has turned to the urgent task of saving democracy.

    At issue is the closing of loopholes and strengthening of the sadly outmoded and dangerously confusing Electoral Count Act of 1887, a poorly written and dangerously outmoded law that governs the mammoth task of counting the votes for president.

    Even the extremely close and highly questionable 2000 election recount in Florida, where the Supreme Court called a halt to the recount and effectively made George

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