The way the process works is that the governor creates Certificates of Ascertainment, and those accompany the electoral votes to the National Archives. Without those certificates, the votes are invalid. The National Archives then sends the votes to Congress to be counted.
Not true, The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of States governors, Certificates of Ascertainment, or the National Register. None at all These are actually only laws passed by Congress and they are not Amendments to the US Constitution. No legislature i.e. the House and the Senate, are bound by laws that are not in the Constitution, they can vote under the rules outlined in the Constitution and ignore any laws passed by prior Congresses. Here are the laws passed by Congress that your opinion rests on. In accordance with 3 U.S.C. §§ 6-14 and the Electoral Count Act a certificate of ascertainment is an official document that identifies the appointed electors and final vote count for each candidate that received electoral votes in a presidential election, submitted after an election by the governor of each state to the Archivist of the United States and others.
Article 2 - The Executive Branch
Section 1 - The President
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
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.
12th Amendment
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.
Again, the U.S. Constitution makes no mention of States governors, Certificates of Ascertainment, or the National Register. None at all.