Certified competing slates of electors have only come into play two times before, 1876 and 1960, if I am not mistaken.
Below is an excerpt from my earlier post. Note that I qualify it by saying "IF a state sends two slates of electors..." I trust that the Trump team knows what they are doing and have a game-plan to get these Trump slates certified so that Pence has them on 1/6.
If a state sends two slates of electors, the president of the Senate (VP Pence) may decide which slate to accept. This is one way in which Trump can be re-elected on January 6th. All it would take is for Pence to select the Trump electors in contested states where he believes vote fraud took place. But as I understand it, Pence doesn't even really need a reason. If he has two slates presented from a given slate, he can arbitrarily choose to accept one slate over the other.
They said that they were the Republican electors there to cast their vote for president. State police declined to let them enter the building or leave votes offered in a manila envelope pic.twitter.com/rNVIwc5ZXC— Riley Beggin (@rbeggin) December 14, 2020
Minus the blatanly fraud votes, in MI, wouldn't these electors' (existing) certification be retroactive? Or, do they have to be re-certified??
Trying to figure out. Thx!