It is so important to get this right: the Legislatures DID NOT send alternative slates. Rather, on the day the EC met, the Trump electors went to the respective capitols and voted as they would have if Trump were the certified winner. So the alternative slates exist, but not by act of the Legislatures
> It is so important to get this right: the Legislatures DID NOT send alternative slates
If you’re going to go there, MI legislators didn’t send anyone. The Capitol was barred to not only Trump electors but the MI legislators. The governor and SoS sent Biden electors.
In the other states legislators were kept from acting. No point pretending the Biden group are the real or legit electors.
I have read the scenario where neither the "certified" Biden electors from the contested states nor the Trump electors from those same states are counted and Trump still prevails with a total count for the rest of the states of something like 232 for Trump and 222 for Biden.
IOW, with the "steal" taken out of the equation completely, Trump still wins. If his alternative electors in those contested states are counted, he wins by a bigger margin.
There is no way the framers of the constitution wanted a candidate to prevail who got there by some states not following the constitutional requirements in their elections.
So however the count is handled on January 6th such that those "illegal" electors, certified or not, are not included in the mix, Trump should still legally prevail.