We did. It's more fanfic bullshit that won't happen.
Why the fudge have I only read about this now?
Because the commenter you're replying to is the first person to have said it, and he basically made it up? At every point dozens of posters here have said, "Okay, now this is what's going to happen ..." and it never has. Why would it now?
"... Which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;–the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted ..."
This passage seem to say the opposite of what you're suggesting. It reads like an explicit instruction for Pence to count all certified votes.
I'm curious, is there any way to contradict or question anything Trump says that wouldn't identify the speaker as a member of the Deep State?
This is actually exactly what you're seeing. Many of those tiny blue speck are more populous than entire red states.