In the coming months, the main legislative change Congress enacted in response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol faces its first major test — and election experts expect it to pass.
Many of those experts think that the new law, the Electoral Count Reform Act, made enough changes to plug vulnerabilities exposed by President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election results in 2020. And they say it will be enough to reject efforts from Trump or other Republicans to dispute the presidential election results in court if they lose again this year.
Ben Ginsberg, a longtime election lawyer at Jones Day and Squire Patton Boggs who has represented Republican presidential candidates, said he felt the new provisions that specify how certification and court challenges would be conducted were a “big step forward” to resolving ambiguities about any post-Election Day disputes.
