No... that refers to a uniform protocol, a run-up time limit. It does not mean you have a single set day to ‘choose’ electors. It means there would be a cut-off day in which you must have completed the appointment/validation and resolved any challenges to any appointment by legal remedy of all electors that qualify to be an official delegate that has been given authorization to cast a vote in their respective state capitals that will be the same day for all states.
If a state legislature has not yet chosen by a statutory date(a prescribed deadline) and validated all entitled delegates ... then any delegate that failed will not be included in the vote tally once the votes have been cast in the state capital.
This does not mean a one-time shot. It simply means a set of rules in the processing of delegate votes.
State legislature delegates CAN challenge the joint session vote in congress by petition to amend their delegate votes. It is not cast in stone after the meeting of the delegates on election day in the state capitals.
So no... there is no constitutional same-day choosing and you have not shown me that it is imposed by the constitution... it’s not.
State legislature delegates CAN challenge the joint session vote in congress by petition to amend their delegate votes. It is not cast in stone after the meeting of the delegates on election day in the state capitals.
I agree that a state legislature can amend their delegate votes after the Electoral College has convened. However, this only works if a separate slate of electors has convened on the same day as the Electoral College vote and formally cast their votes for another candidate. This actually happened in most of the contested states, with Trump’s electors convening in the state capitals and casting their votes. But what DIDN’T happen was that the legislatures in those states never took up the issue and followed up by sending the competing slates of electors to Congress for the January 6th session.
Retracting electors in the 2020 election at this point is like reversing an umpire’s bad decision in the 1978 World Series.