[DoodleDawg]

Yes it does. Specifying "President of the Senate" means that no one else may do that job.

So if the vice-presidency is vacant then the count can't take place?

If the "President of the Senate" refuses to go along with a fraud, then the constitution allows the fraudsters no other options.

Where?

[Houserino]

The amount of ignorance showing here is shocking. True believers though, I’ll give them that.

[DiogenesLamp]

So if the vice-presidency is vacant then the count can't take place?

I'm pretty sure that depends on how anal-retentive you want to be about interpreting the meaning from the words. I don't think a rational person would read it as the President of the Senate is indispensable, but as some of you are reading it with such absolutely rigidity to your own specific interpretation of it, it should not trouble you much to have this same ridiculously rigid shoe put on your own foot.

Where?

In that same ridiculously rigid interpretation you and your allies have of the document.

If you insist on saying the President of the Senate must rubber stamp the procedure, then I can just as easily say the procedure can't go forward unless the President of the Senate allows it.

A bon chat, bon rat.