The sovereign citizen movement is based on the premise that the law is like magic: all you have to do is mutter the right incantations and doors will open and your enemies will be vanquished. The Mike Spence actually did have the power to reject the electors was actually one of the more plausible, but completely theoretical, variants of this line of thinking (setting aside that it was also completely legally untenable.) The brief popularity of the quo warranto writs option for overturning the election was in the mainstream of this loopy line of thinking. Sovereign citizenry: legal analysis for morons
My niece is a public defender. Every once in a while she gets assigned a sovereign citizen.
She says the first conversation goes for about ten minutes. It gets her nowhere.
Then the court appearance consists of her explain to the judge that citizen John Doe is a nation unto himself. The she sits down, takes out a nail file, touches up her manicure, and listens as the judge eviscerates John.
The second meeting is closer to what everyone else gets the first time.