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Pres. Trump supporters sent alternate electoral vote certificates for 7 states to the national archives.

These certificates are only valid if they originate with a state legislature. Trump supporters sitting around a coffee table writing up certificates have no legal standing. Nobody abdicated responsibilities.

not what the electoral count law says: purported certificates are handled during the objection process

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/15
Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical order...Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any...

what else you got ?

The President of The Senate Pence took his\your stance and verified it with the Parliamentarian

The ascertainment was changed to incorporate the Parliamentarian opinion - note the bolded part

After ascertaining that the certificates are regular in form and authentic, the tellers will announce the votes cast by the electors for each State, beginning with Alabama, which the Parliamentarian has advised me is the only certificate of vote from that State, and purports to be a return from the State, and that has annexed to it a certificate from an authority of that State purporting to appoint or ascertain electors.

is what Pence added to he ascertainment statement.
There was no way "papers purported..." were going to presented, much less opened. How does that square with the "papers purported" statement int he law ?
Congress is reworking the electoral count act and will be getting rid of the "purported" statement altogether.

I'm done. I'll let it alone.

Ignore the parts of the law not liked.

Just shoot me !