They can send a dozen set of electors if they want. According to law, and absent a successful challenge, only those electors submitted by the Electoral College will be counted.
Here’s another theory. What if President Trump invokes the Insurrection act specifically regarding the illegal election fraud from those contested states.
At that point in time, constitutionally, the president has the authority to order the House and Senate to disregard all illegal EC votes from contested states.
See post 45. US Code on reading of Electoral Votes very clearly states that Pence has NO POWER to disregard votes, or choose alternate votes. Only the House AND Senate, acting in agreement can do that - and only IF there are 2 certified slates of Electors from a particular state. And, face it, the House and Senate will NEVER agree, even IF there were 2 certified slates which is highly unlikely to begin with.
I can’t fathom why this nonsense of Pence single handedly pulling some 11th hour miracle save continues to be posted. It wasn’t possible the first time it was posted, and it continues to not be possible the 100+th time it’s been posted.
There are conflicting interpretations & yours is from a liberal cesspool, Cornell.
That said, some conservatives have argued that the 12th Amendment gives the vice president unilateral authority to reject electors.
The language of that amendment “seems to envisage a single, continuous process in which the Vice President both opens and counts the votes,” wrote constitutional law scholars John Yoo and Robert Delahunty in the American Mind in October.
“The check on error or fraud in the count is that the Vice President’s activities are to be done publicly, ‘in the presence” of Congress,’” they added. “And if ‘counting’ the electors’ votes is the Vice President’s responsibility, then the inextricably intertwined responsibility for judging the validity of those votes must also be his.”