Vice President Mike Pence did not acknowledge how seven states sent two certificates to Washington, one for President Donald Trump and one for President-elect Joe Biden, during the joint session of Congress. Pence only read off one certificate, for Biden, for the seven states in question: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Before reading each state’s certificate, Pence asked the joint session if there were objections. He would later add: “This certificate from [a state], the parliamentarians advise me, is the only certificate of vote from that state that purports to be a return from the state and that has annexed to it a certificate from the authority of the state purporting to appoint and ascertain electors.” The Electoral College Act, passed some 150 years ago, outlines a scenario where a state sends “more than one return or paper purporting to be a return.” It calls on …