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Read the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It's written there in plain language, regardless of whatever some hack with a political agenda says.

There is a very clear process laid out there:

1. The state electoral votes are signed and certified.
2. The certified votes are sealed and transmitted to "the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate" (this is the Vice President).
3. The President of the Senate, "in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives," opens all the certificates.
4. "The votes shall then be counted."
5. The person with the greatest number of electoral votes for President is the President-elect.

There's no leeway in here for the Vice President -- or anyone else -- to "reject" electoral votes, or "suspend" the counting of electoral votes, or "send back electoral votes for clarification," or any of the other nonsense I've seen proposed here on FR since then.

"certified" what does that word mean to you?
US code: "The president of the Senate must open all the "certificates" and "papers purporting to be certificates"
purporting --
to claim (to be a certain thing, etc) by manner or appearance, esp falsely

I do look information. Do you?

"Read the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."

You mean the U.S. Constitution that Democrats say is a "living document", whose words they twist and turn to suit their needs whenever they choose, and get away with it? Heaven forbid that a GOP elitist question anything like Democrats do. He could have tried to reject those electors from the States where fraud was heavily suspected. If you can reject electors via a vote in Congress, which both sides have done in previous elections, Pence had the right to reject those questionable electors, and send them back to the States, even if, in the end it failed. You don't know the outcome of something unless you at least try. Pence is a self-serving prig.