History pedes, this is the congressional record when this exact thing happened in 1877. It'd be nice to pour through it to see what went down, how it was conducted, if evidence was admitted (I don't think it was, see page 3 when the Senator from North Carolina motions for a resolution to include evidence
"... I maintain that we must have the evidence before us ; and we must not
only have it before us in a general sense, but we must have it before us in an official sense; we must have it before us under the special
jurisdiction that we are exercising to count the electoral vote for
President and Vice-President."
History pedes, this is the congressional record when this exact thing happened in 1877. It'd be nice to pour through it to see what went down, how it was conducted, if evidence was admitted (I don't think it was, see page 3 when the Senator from North Carolina motions for a resolution to include evidence
"... I maintain that we must have the evidence before us ; and we must not only have it before us in a general sense, but we must have it before us in an official sense; we must have it before us under the special jurisdiction that we are exercising to count the electoral vote for President and Vice-President."
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1877-pt3-v5/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1877-pt3-v5-8.pdf