Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | August 4, 2022 In the fall of 2020, Walter Dellinger, the late and widely admired former acting U.S. Solicitor General, was focused on defending Joe Biden against any moves that then-President Donald Trump might make to overturn the 2020 presidential election if Trump lost. Dellinger had joined with two other […]
“Given how close former President Trump came to overturning the 2020 election, there is no room for error in the reform legislation.” – D21 President Fred Wertheimer The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 (ECRA), which would reform two antiquated 19th-century laws that govern the presidential election process, “is important and necessary reform,” but there […]
View Democracy 21’s testimony in a PDF Testimony of Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 On Reforming the Electoral Count Act Submitted to Senate Rules Committee Hearing On “The Electoral Count Act: The Need For Reform” August 3, 2022 Chairwoman Klobuchar, Ranking Member Blunt, and members of the Senate Rules Committee, Democracy 21 […]
“This is the beginning of the legislative process, not the end.” Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | July 28, 2022 Last week, a bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), proposed legislation to repair two antiquated 19th-century laws that govern how presidential elections work. Both laws are seriously flawed […]
Congress has an opportunity to finally fix the flawed Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 and the Electoral Count Act of 1887. It can’t fail. Former President Donald Trump’s “plot to steal the 2020 presidential election was eye-opening. Congress must act now to ensure that any future attempt to steal the presidency does not succeed […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | July 21, 2022 The House Jan. 6 hearings have exceeded all expectations. Blockbuster hearing after blockbuster hearing have produced overwhelming evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that former President Donald Trump led a conspiracy to attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election he had clearly lost and that he incited the […]
A bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), released their proposal today to reform seriously flawed 19th-century laws that govern presidential elections. The laws include the Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA), into which the 1845 Act was incorporated. Democracy 21 is […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | July 14, 2022 The House Jan. 6th Committee hearings have documented that central to the attempted presidential coup by former President Donald Trump and his chief strategist John Eastman was their plan to exploit a loophole in the Presidential Election Day Act of 1845. The loophole would have allowed a […]
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