Note that the Federal Constitution does not specify the the VPOTUS’s 1/6 role is strictly ministerial.
Nor does it preclude him from leaning on a given state whose process for selecting the slate of electors pledged to this or that POTUS candidate stinks to high heaven.
The sitting VPOTUS should do this, if morally certain that fraud has taken place, by (1) refusing immediately (or seasonably, after objections are heard and considered) to certify those electoral votes submitted by that state, (2) demanding adequate and immediate accountability commensurate with the issues raised, and (3) hold out the real potential for the candidate in question to suffer the ultimate penalty of having those objected-to votes declared void, and the 50+ percent required Electoral Vote tally adjusted to reflect the total exclusion of that state’s votes from the POTUS and VPOTUS electoral college contest.
Watch the first state embarrassed in this way to get religion in no more than one electoral heartbeat. That state will render its state-level federal election processes pure as the wind-driven snow, and thereby make its quadrennial Electoral College vote tally submissions bulletproof, and thereby legally and (perhaps most importantly) politically unassailable by a sitting VPOTUS of the opposite political party than that of the POTUS candidate said by the SOS of that state to have prevailed in that state.
one guy in new jersey wrote: “Note that the Federal Constitution does not specify the the VPOTUS’s 1/6 role is strictly ministerial. Nor does it preclude him from leaning on a given state whose process for selecting the slate of electors pledged to this or that POTUS candidate stinks to high heaven.”
Sounds like you believe in ‘emanating penumbras’.
one guy in new jersey wrote: “The sitting VPOTUS should do this, if morally certain that fraud has taken place, by (1) refusing immediately (or seasonably, after objections are heard and considered) to certify those electoral votes submitted by that state, (2) demanding adequate and immediate accountability commensurate with the issues raised, and (3) hold out the real potential for the candidate in question to suffer the ultimate penalty of having those objected-to votes declared void, and the 50+ percent required Electoral Vote tally adjusted to reflect the total exclusion of that state’s votes from the POTUS and VPOTUS electoral college contest.”
It’s 6 Jan 2017. Congress meets in Joint Session to count the votes of the 2016 election. The sitting VPOTUS, Joe Biden, being morally certain that fraud had taken place as alleged by the Clinton campaign, (1) refused immediately to certify the electoral votes submitted by certain states (2) demanded adequate and immediate accountability commensurate with the issues raised (disparities between exit polls and final results, reports of foreign interferrence, etc.), and (3) upon receiving that accountability he deemed conclusive required the Electoral Vote tally adjusted to reflect the total exclusion of those state’s votes from the POTUS and VPOTUS electoral college contest resulting in an electoral win for Hillary Clinton.
one guy in new jersey wrote: “Watch the first state embarrassed in this way to get religion in no more than one electoral heartbeat. That state will render its state-level federal election processes pure as the wind-driven snow, and thereby make its quadrennial Electoral College vote tally submissions bulletproof, and thereby legally and (perhaps most importantly) politically unassailable by a sitting VPOTUS of the opposite political party than that of the POTUS candidate said by the SOS of that state to have prevailed in that state.”
The democrats, claiming vindication, ensured no changes were made to the electoral process and an endless stream of democrat election victories. VP Tim Kane consequently ensured the election of a Democratic ticket in 2020 and 2024 citing fruad and Russian collusion by the Trump campaigns. None other than Democrats have since been elected since Bush in 2004.