Rand Paul has been in the DC Beltway too long.
We’re not expected to be mindless robots following the exact letter of the law regardless of any circumstance. We’re supposed to reasonably abide by the Constitution but if there is clear fraud and theft, then we deal with it.
Validating a fraudulent election and a fraudulent President isn’t virtuous or “legal”. It is ratifying malfeasance at the highest levels and destroying the freedoms for which the Constitution stands.
You can stop the fraud following the exact letter of the law. The exact letter of the law says that legislatures send the electors, so if governors and courts sent electors ignoring laws passed by state legislatures, they shouldn’t be counted.