WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing efforts to rework a law on certifying electoral votes as a bipartisan group of senators considers changes aimed a preventing maneuvers deployed by some Republicans last year to challenge the 2020 election results.
McConnell told reporters the process for counting Electoral College votes that certified President Joe Biden’s victory over former President Donald Trump needs changes, giving further weight to the nascent talks to alter the nearly 150-year-old law.
McConnell did not comment on specific aspects he’d support, but his comments Thursday come in the wake of attempts by Trump’s backers in Congress to contest the presidential election outcome and just a day after Senate Republicans blocked passage of a much more sweeping voting-rights bill drawn up by Democrats.
