Quoted: Acknowledging the limitations of the Electoral Count Reform Act, included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus government funding deal struck to avoid a shutdown at the end of this week, University of Wisconsin-Madison Elections Research Center Director Barry Burden agreed it is an “important improvement.”
“It is unlikely that any change in law on its own will have much effect on misinformation about how elections are run in the U.S.,” the political science professor said. “However, the bipartisan initiative to put more guardrails on the electoral count process is a welcome reform that should control efforts to undermine future presidential elections.”