Bridge MI: Whitmer signs Michigan election law overhaul that aims to prevent ‘chaos’

This article originally appeared in Bridge MI.

The new law governing election certification aligns Michigan with the federal Electoral Count Reform Act, which was introduced in Congress with a handful of GOP co-sponsors and signed last year by Democratic President Joe Biden.

Among other things, the federal law makes clear that the vice president has a “ministerial” duty to count electoral votes that states send to congress, contradicting Trump’s claim that former Vice President Mike Pence could and should have blocked certification of the 2020 presidential election.

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The changes will “remove ambiguity and ensure courts are the primary venue for contested elections,” Kevin Johnson, co-founder of the national Election Reformers Network, told lawmakers last month in a legislative hearing.

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