The US Constitution requires legislatures to submit the electoral votes. The Executive branch has no constitutional authority to "certify" anything.
The VP should have thrown the election to the house. It was his constitutional duty to do so because the electors were not submitted by the legislatures.
No, it doesn’t. You have posted this nonsense before, and it’s as false today as it was the first time you posted it.
Well, see, that’s my point. You can’t just make crap up, like you just did, and like Eastman did, the latter to the manifest injury of the conservative movement. Here’s the language from the Constitution. You tell me where it says the Legislature has to submit the electoral votes. Rather, perfectly consistent with this language, I believe every state, after the electors have been SELECTED in the manner established by the Legislature, have met, submits a certification to Congress by the state Secretary of State,
The Legislature having passed a statute authorizing and directing the SOS to do so.
Moreover, in presiding over the joint session, the VP is acting in his constitutional role as President of the Senate, not in his role of VPOTUS.
Your post is gibberish, and false. Here’s the language from the Constitution:
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
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The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.”