Can the feds step in and count the votes?
It IS a federal election...
Actually, no. It’s a state election.
The POTUS popular elections within each state are ‘state’ elections for the purpose of AWARDING the states EC delegate positions to the respective party’s state popular vote winner for POUTS.
Each party has an EC slate, EC place-holders that compliment the states delegate count. Whichever party’s POTUS nominee won the states popular vote would become the official state EC delegates who will then cast their votes in their respective state capitals in December.
The SCOTUS can step in if the popular vote was arrived at by election and/or voter fraud.
or...
the state legislature can decide EC delegate appointments if the integrity of the popular vote was determined to be corrupted, without integrity. That power is given to the state legislature in deciding delegate appointment pursuant to the US Constitution...
Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2-3:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States shall be appointed an Elector.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.