Yes it does. He presides over the process, and the constitution specifically tasks him with a duty to insure it is legitimate.
Would George Washington accept obviously corrupt election results? No. No one of that era would have rolled over like a little bitch and accepted corrupt election results.
Only backstabbing cowards like Pence would have done such a thing. Real men would not do it.
Even if Pence had (for example, as a political decision after collecting insufficient contrary information due to blue state stonewalling, Soros-AG corruption, and SOROS state SOS investigational competence) eventually accepted Biden-electing election results, the precedent would have been set to place corrupt states and the bad actors who populate them under a microscope for federal Electoral College purposes.
Over time and multiple election cycles, this would likely have the effect of wiping them clean. Like with a cloth.