So, if I understand what your saying, Thomas Jefferson was never POTUS. Check move he made as President of the U.S. Senate.year 1856-7. That will be a shock to you. The desertification of “electors” will put election in House of Representatives. Each state will get one vote. FYI nation wide, approx 29 Republican State Legislators, 20 Democratic.
That was before the Electoral Act of 1877 added all the detail. Every schoolchild learns that America doesn’t have kings, and so we have checks and balances to avoid one person having all the power. No judge is going to read the law as vesting the vice president with a free hand to disregard electoral votes.