At 1 p.m. on Jan. 6, members of Congress will gather in the House of Representatives to observe the counting of electoral votes for the President of the United States. Usually a formality, the occasion is anticipated with trepidation this year as President Donald Trump and tens of millions of his supporters are convinced that a decisive share of the votes are tainted by fraud and shouldn’t be counted. The situation is complicated by a lack of clarity on the legal and constitutional guardrails for the process. The joint session of Congress may well result in a gridlock where a clear winner of the race isn’t announced at all. Based on current election results, former Vice President Joe Biden has received 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 votes. Republicans in seven states where Biden claimed victory have sent their own sets of electoral votes to Washington, and some members of …