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Thank you for referencing that article bitt. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Spoiler: All the fuss about 2020 elections is because the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties have no intention of surrendering state powers that they’ve been stealing from the states for the last 100+ years back to the states imo.

"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Regarding the OP, I don’t see any of the stuff mentioned in the OP concerning Maricopa County in the 12th Amendment’s (12A) rules for processing electoral votes.

Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists 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 [emphasis added];--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 states don’t seem to be complying with 12A at all. In fact, the states surrendered their power to make state “winner take all” laws for example, awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to one candidate, when they ratified that amendment imo.

“Winner take all” laws also effectively nullify the House’s power to choose from among the top three electoral vote winners imo.

Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "… and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President [emphasis added], the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President."

Maybe the anti-Trump vote by lawmakers on January 6, 2020 was partly intended to keep 12A from public scrutiny.

Federal lawmakers who voted to ignore alleged problems with 2020 vote counting did not uphold their oaths to protect 12A imo, and need to be removed from office under Section 3 of 14th Amendment imo.

"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

Insights welcome.