[semimojo]

...seven states sent so-called competing electors, or certificates for both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, to Washington. ...

That's not really accurate. The "states" didn't send alternative slates, a rump group of Republicans did.

A bunch of Democrat representatives in Texas could send in a alternate slate of Democratic electors and they would carry exactly the same weight.

[Sense]

There is not a snowballs chance in hell that the word of a Democrat would carry the same weight as the word of a non-RINOcrat Republican.