“Pence could have”
The VP has NO constitutional powers to do anything other than “preside” over the Senate...or a joint session formed to consider electors.
However, the power everyone here is accusing Pence of not exercising is fully vested in POTUS on the criminal front, and Congress on the electoral front.
With both Trump and Congress...ALONG with state legislatures unwilling to exercise their constitutional powers...why would Pence assume and assert imaginary powers?
It’s a prima facie bullsh!t story.
The VP has NO constitutional powers to do anything other than “preside” over the Senate...or a joint session formed to consider electors.So if he chooses not to, then what? Arrest him?
Presiding over the Senate or a "joint session formed to consider electors" may not sound powerful to you. But I think it's a lot of power GIVEN TO HIM by US and with it comes an obligation to US, not the electors.
And still, he could have.