Why progress on the Electoral Count Act might be possible

It's no secret that John Eastman, a Republican lawyer on Donald Trump's team in the aftermath of the former president's defeat, wrote an infamous memo intended to help overturn the results. What's less known is why Eastman thought his scheme would work.

As regular readers know, the GOP attorney was convinced that then-Vice President Mike Pence, rather than honor the results of the election, could exploit ambiguities in the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and set aside the Electoral College votes of seven states.

Eastman's scheme, obviously, didn't work — but that doesn't mean the Electoral Count Act's ambiguities should remain unresolved.

The good news is, there's an ongoing effort to reform the 135-year-old election statute. The better news is, it's not necessarily doomed to fail. Axios reported late yesterday: