Don’t be surprised if/when a repeat of Bleeding Kansas occurs.
Bleeding Kansas was a real conflict with serious consequences but took place before Kansas was a state. Territories play no role in POTUS elections. All parties are established components of the federal system. The stability of the process is an important feature that none of the states or the federal government will wish to disturb, the goal being a seamless transition from one federal executive administration to the next. If Bleeding Ksnsas suggests anything it is that the rile of the VP need not remsin purely ministerial as it traditionally has been but that, for good and substantial reasons, the federal VP is empowered to send a state’s tally back to the state with a request that they investigate alleged fraud and, if necessary, re-run the original electoral slate selection process, followed by re-voting if the other candidate’s electoral slate ends up being put in place. A year and a half later? Now is no time to envision a do-over. Fix the process and do better the next time. Really—we need to move on to fix the individual state systems, plus the VP needs to stop acting like a mere clerk. Pence was the problem in this scenario.