-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...
So, get the certificates in there for him to count.
Dam gud point. Where are the certificates?
The certificates will be there. From the law: "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 of the States, beginning with the letter A".