[wny]

Constitution says VP counts the EVs. Doesn’t empower VP to determine or opine on the legitimacy of them or to reject them.

[Dr. Franklin]

Constitution says VP counts the EVs. Doesn’t empower VP to determine or opine on the legitimacy of them or to reject them.

The clerk at motor vehicles just issues the drivers' licenses but can't reject a fraudulent application? The VP was empowered to reject fraudulent electoral votes constitutionally, so the Congress amended the law:
Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022
Pence is a coward, and history will judge him as such.

[DiogenesLamp]

Constitution says VP counts the EVs. Doesn’t empower VP to determine or opine on the legitimacy of them or to reject them.

Very incorrect. They would not have given the job to the president of the Senate to behave like a rubber stamp. They don't need to appoint anyone to the task if that is all it is.

The task is inherently discretionary. It has real power, and is not just ceremonial. The Constitution doesn't do ceremonial, it only deals with real exercises of power.

Had George Washington been the President of the Senate, and had he been presented with clearly corruptly produced results, he would not have said "Oh dear me! I *MUST* approve this pile of corruption, or people will talk bad about me!"

He would have said "No. Not on my watch."

The men of 1787 were not wilting flowers, they were honorable men who would not abide or participate in corruption. They would have rejected the corruptly produced results and sent the thing to the House for resolution.