The Electoral Count Act of 1887, a little-known law is what Trump attempted to use to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection has determined that this law should be overhauled contending that it is an ambiguous law that puts American democracy at risk. This article published by The New York Times is written by Luke Broadwater and Nick Corasaniti. Here is an excerpt:

Members of the select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol are pressing to overhaul the complex and little-known law that former President Donald J. Trump and his allies tried to use to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that the ambiguity of the statute puts democracy itself at risk.

The push to rewrite the Electoral Count Act of 1887 — enacted more than a century ago in the wake of another bitterly disputed presidential election — has taken on new urgency in recent weeks as more details have emerged about the extent of Mr. Trump’s plot to exploit its provisions to cling to power.

Mr. Trump and his allies, using a warped interpretation of the law, sought to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to throw out legitimate results when Congress met in a joint session on Jan. 6 to conduct its official count of electoral votes.

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