[Alberta's Child]

As i understand it Pence could have returned the vote to the state legislatures to ensure the integrity of the the process with all the doubts about vote counts etc.

The "as I understand it" part you describe seems reasonable, but it simply is not correct. Read the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It says nothing about the VP having that kind of power. And it makes no sense to give a VP that kind of power, because if he had it he could (theoretically) keep sending it back to the state legislatures over and over again for years.

[Dr. Franklin]

The "as I understand it" part you describe seems reasonable, but it simply is not correct. Read the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It says nothing about the VP having that kind of power.

The Twelfth Amendment refers to "certificates", but makes no mention of who issues them. Since the state legislature itself has the constitutional power to select the presidential electors, the constitutional administrator of the election, VPOTUS, could refer any dubious "certificates" back to the legislature for their official certification. Pence failed the test. His name is now Mudd Pence