Before the act, it only took one member from each of the House and the Senate to lodge a formal objection to the submitted slate of electors. Now the bar is set at one fifth of the members of each chamber, and that only gets the issue to debate. A majority of both houses is necessary to throw out the electoral slate from any state, thereby disenfranchising all the voters in that state, not just those who voted for … (13:47–13:54)
CLAIM
Asserts that the act requires one-fifth of each chamber to object to electoral slates.
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