The Editorial Board of the New York Times on Sunday, Feb. 6, published Jan. 6 Was a Warning. Will Lawmakers Do Anything To Protect the 2024 Election?
The editorial responds to the efforts of a bipartisan group of senators to consider changes in the Electoral Count Act of 1887. But the editorial is not a good guide to what may need to be changed. Its language is often overbroad: the Act is not a “legal monstrosity;” “ambiguity on the page opens the door to bloodshed in the streets;” “fixing, at long last, the 135-year-old federal law;” “the law’s confounding language created the space for a seductive narrative about a stolen election;” “Yet that much should have been crystal-clear even before 2020;” “the mess of the Electoral Count Act.”
