electoral count law on how to resolve electoral college disputes. critics say the ambiguous text of the law created an opening for donald trump to try to overturn the 2020 election results by proposing his own slates of electors in swing states. scholars call it a ticking time bomb. agnes king serves on the armed service committee. we ll get to ukraine. i want to ask you about working on this electoral count act, bipartisan group. tell us the progress on this and whether you think senator klobucar and others and senator durbin, who introduced a draft bill, has some real chance of passing. well, i think it does. and i want to emphasize that this is i call this necessary but not sufficient. it doesn t deal with other voter suppression problems that are going on around the country. but it is very important. and it is i think a ticking time bomb is a good way to talk about this law written in 1876.
florida governor rick scott has not actually in writing made an official demand or instruction for the fdle to do this. i think this is more of a pr stunt than they re actually concerned about fraud going on. because there s nothing fraudulent happening. they can t even point to anything fraudulent that has happened. they say it s fishy that somebody found in the closet a box that contained provision so count them and see what they are. fine. but the other thing some republicans are complaining about is they re counting ballots that have come in after election day but that s how the law works. it just has to be post marked. they re trying to make that out as being some sort of fishy behavior. and i just think this is what republicans do too much. they make these accusations of fraud where there is no fraud. and then when you have actual voter suppression problems going on like we had in georgia they do nothing and say nothing. one thing we know from the 2000 experience, the