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“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said. “I had no right to overturn the election.”

In a sense, Pence is correct, he had no right to “overturn” the election. But Pence DID have the right to identify disputed results as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ for several battleground states, and send them back to be corrected or validated by means of a 10-day emergency audit.

Maybe for the most part the role of the VP may appear to be ceremonial because, in the past, there were no results to question for many years. It is not ceremonial if there exist serious allegations of fraud and illegal conduct.

Pence could have urged Congress to immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states could have evaluated the Commission’s findings and convened a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if warranted.

There is a growing mountain of evidence of fraud and illegal conduct that the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election was Donald J. Trump.

But Pence DID have the right to identify disputed results as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ for several battleground states, and send them back to be corrected or validated by means of a 10-day emergency audit.

But they were regularly given and lawfully certified in the laws in place in the states at the time. Suspicions of widespread fraud doesn't change that because it was just claims and nothing was proven. To this day they remain just claims because nobody has been charged with any crime or any misdeeds relating to the charges. So Pence had nothing to act on.

It is entirely ceremonial, based on the Constitution and the laws currently in place. To say otherwise is to say the Executive Branch can overrule the decision of the states at will, and nothing in the Constitution supports that.

There is a growing mountain of evidence of fraud and illegal conduct that the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election was Donald J. Trump.

Then charge, arrest, try, convict, and jail those responsible. Why isn't that being done?