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.
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.
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?
Actually, if the VP had such power, why didn’t Gore overrule and make himself president. He certainly was dishonest and ambitious enough. Was Gore too dumb to do it? On his own yes, but there were plenty of Rat lawyers to urge him on. Even they couldn’t justify it and not because of any patriotic scruples!
Could it be that those responsible are one and the same as the Democrats who benefited by the fraud, the MSM, an arm of the Democrats, and big Tech, all of whom are likely guilty of the big steal, and doing their best to block initiatives to look into whether there was fraud?
The truth is coming out, but at a snail's pace because of the reluctance of those responsible to allow the fact finders to do their jobs. Only a handful of counties that are long time strongholds for the Democrats, with a reputation of corruption, and hostile to investigations; these counties account for the flip from Trump to Biden.
Millions were spent to increase the vote by big Tech. How many of those votes were illegal? Don't look for big Tech or the Democrats or their complicent partners in the MSM to help to provide the answer.