Exactly 742 days ago, Vice President Mike Pence, while standing before a joint session of Congress, accepted the Electoral College votes for the 2020 election, and in so doing, formalized Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.
At the time, both President Trump and a large contingent of Republicans in general were very opposed to that decision because they believed that Pence actually had the authority to decide whether or not to accept the officially certified votes.
On the surface, it just means that the vice president, who is also the president of the Senate, is the one to open the votes that come in from the electoral college delegates in each state. But what happens if a state sends in more than one slate of electors? Well, the answer to that lies in the Electoral Count Act….