The media and establishment has not reported or explained what the constitution allows for with regards to elections. I have pasted some notes here
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The electoral count act allows for dueling electors with the vice president having a function during the vote count
indicates the role of VP:
en.wikipedia.org
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The Act was enacted by Congress in 1887, ten years after the disputed 1876 presidential election, in which several states submitted competing slates of electors and a divided Congress was unable to resolve the deadlock for weeks
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The Act aimed to minimize congressional involvement in election disputes, instead placing the primary responsibility to resolve disputes upon the states.
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Under the Twelfth Amendment, the vice president (as President of the Senate) opens the electoral certificates. The act clarified the vice president's limited role in the count. Both houses could overrule the vice president's decision to include or exclude votes
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Congress changed the law in 2022 to prevent another J6, in other words they made a change to the constitution because what Trump supporters wanted Pence to do was in the constitution. The constitution doesn't require the VP to do this, it just allows it. If he didn't want to or his lawyers advised against it, that doesn't negate the fact that it was the law. People may disagree how to interpret the constitution, but to say that no such law exists or had never existed seems dishonest and clearly shows highly biased and inaccurate journalism which there are too many examples of
Congress passes election reform designed to ward off another Jan. 6
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The omnibus spending bill includes a section that would reform the Electoral Count Act, a 1887 law that governs the counting of Electoral College votes in Congress.
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It's also been argued that state legislatures have more authority than a governor or others to submit electors, even though they may seem to not exercise that power or be reluctant to. If a state legislature believes fraud was committed or for any similar reasons then there is a legal argument that they can submit their own electors and thus dueling electors would exist but the democrats are calling those fake electors:
It is theoretically possible for the governor and legislature, each representing a different political party, to submit two different election results, leading to so-called “dueling slates of electors.”
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