A bipartisan group of senators is close to reaching an agreement on reforming the Electoral Count Act. The law, which dates back to 1887, determines how the Electoral College certification will be conducted. The bipartisan group, which paused work on Electoral Count reform as many of the senators involved turned their focus to gun laws following major mass shootings in May, has been in talks for months to determine how to clarify the vice president and Congress’s role in the certification of the winner of the presidential election. “We’re very close. We’ve got a few technical issues that we ne…