Copied and pasted relevant sections from a vox article, couldn't easily find another source unfortunately. Pence plays a big role and can take up any claims before certifying the State Electors votes, and which Electors to accept in the case there are "Alternates".
"The 12th Amendment to the Constitution says that Congress — led by Vice President Mike Pence, in his role as president of the Senate — is supposed to “open all the certificates” of electoral votes sent by states, and “the votes shall then be counted.”
"The nightmare scenarios for a post-election dispute — like this one written last year by Ned Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University — often focused on how Congress might settle things if they got two slates of electors from a contested state, one certified by the governor and one by the state legislature. Which elector slate would be the “default” one? Would Pence end up making the final call? If he did so, and Congress was divided, who could stop him? There are various messy possibilities as to how this could play out.
But that’s not the situation that’s unfolding. For the 2020 election, every governor has certified a result, and no state legislature has disputed that result."
"The person who will truly be in an awkward position on January 6 is Vice President Pence."
It’s my understanding that the house only gets one vote per state delegation. There are 30ish Republican state delegations and only 20 Dem.
Insurrection Act at that point. Hate to say it but a drastic measure is needed at this point. Our republic needs to be preserved at all cost
Copied and pasted relevant sections from a vox article, couldn't easily find another source unfortunately. Pence plays a big role and can take up any claims before certifying the State Electors votes, and which Electors to accept in the case there are "Alternates".
"The 12th Amendment to the Constitution says that Congress — led by Vice President Mike Pence, in his role as president of the Senate — is supposed to “open all the certificates” of electoral votes sent by states, and “the votes shall then be counted.” "The nightmare scenarios for a post-election dispute — like this one written last year by Ned Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University — often focused on how Congress might settle things if they got two slates of electors from a contested state, one certified by the governor and one by the state legislature. Which elector slate would be the “default” one? Would Pence end up making the final call? If he did so, and Congress was divided, who could stop him? There are various messy possibilities as to how this could play out.
But that’s not the situation that’s unfolding. For the 2020 election, every governor has certified a result, and no state legislature has disputed that result."
"The person who will truly be in an awkward position on January 6 is Vice President Pence."