Speaker 3
We've had this law in the books for many, many years now that provides for election day, but also includes, I referred to it as section two, it's the USU section two that says that if a state holds an election for purposes of appointing electors and essentially fails to make a choice, then the state legislature can determine the manner of appointing electors after election
Speaker 4
day, essentially. There's a
Speaker 3
decent historical evidence about what that was intended to mean and importantly not intended to mean, but the terms are not defined in the statute. And I think maybe some of the meeting has
Speaker 4
been misconstrued over time and so has been misunderstood
Speaker 3
to allow state legislatures to declare a failure for any number of reasons and sort of purport to step in and appoint electors, perhaps even in contravention of the popular vote. So what the Senate bill does is really fix that. It makes very clear that there is one election day and that's the date on which electors must be appointed and that they must be appointed pursuant to laws in place prior to that date. So that's really important. Then
Speaker 4
it does address this question of, you know, what if there's a problem essentially? What if the election cannot be effectively completed on that day? And what
Speaker 3
it says is that in, you know, if there are extraordinary and
Speaker 4
catastrophic events that prevent the election from being then pursuant again to state laws in place in
Speaker 3
advance, a state can extend voting if that's necessary. So what it does is eliminate this concept of a failed election and the sort of ambiguities around that, but leaves a very narrow opening sort of necessitated by extraordinary circumstances for
Speaker 4
not for state legislatures or others to step
Speaker 3
in, but to allow for an extended voting period.
