[DoodleDawg]

If Biden loses 37 EC votes due to them being de-certified or whatever and not being appointed for the EC vote, he still wins, 269-232. States that don't send appointed electors don't count for the votes, but they also don't count for the total. So your number of majority will drop as well.

An interesting theory and I admit in many ways it makes sense, but since none of the electors are going to be decertified then we'll never find out if you're right or not.

[Svartalfiar]

An interesting theory and I admit in many ways it makes sense, but since none of the electors are going to be decertified then we'll never find out if you're right or not.

In this election, true. Even if they miraculously find their balls and decertify, part of that process would most likely include certifying the Trump slate.

But, for a half-similar situation, you can look at the 1868 election - 251 EC votes were cast, but only 118 were needed to win as Congress determined 17 votes (LA and TN) to be ineligible. Not to mention all the Confederate States's EC votes were not included in the total, even though Lincoln and others argued that the States never truly left, since they weren't "allowed" to secede in the first place. If that was the case, their EC votes would have still been included in the vote, just not recorded as counting.