>>where in the constitution does it subscribe the power to accept or reject electors as part of the president of the senate duties?<<
“The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted” -
Amendment XII, ratified 1804.
Exactly...so where does it say the president of the senate may or may not accept or reject slates of electors?
Where does it say the VP can determine fraud or fraudulent ballots?
Where is it in the constitution that says the VP has the authority to adjudicate good ballots and or bad ballots?
It doesn’t. We cannot read in to the constitution what we want it to say.
The duty of the president of the senate is to open the certificates and read out what has been certified by the states...that’s it.
I’m done.
Acceptance of the certificates is inherent in the act of "opening" and "counted".
Where does it say the VP can determine fraud or fraudulent ballots?
It is inherent in all acts of government, let alone in all acts relating to private parties, that fraud when detected should be addressed and remediated.
The duty of the president of the senate is to open the certificates and read out what has been certified by the states...that’s it.
And what has been certified by the states? Let us imagine a situation in which the Governor of a state, having assumed dictatorial and tyrannical control over the state using an army of henchmen, has built walls around the state border, slaughtered his legislature, butchered his courts, and has issued certificates based on an election held, in violation of the law passed by the legislature while it yet lived, limited to one ballot cast by the Governor. Should those certificates be accepted automatically?
And when the Governor of the state has accomplished his fraud not through force of arms, the shedding of much blood, and obvious strength, but merely through bribery and connivance and conspiracy, should his fraud and that of his co-conspirers be ignored, and the certificates be accepted automatically?
You might argue that neither of these cases applies here, but what I mean to prove by these exaggerations is that the VP has a role to play, and Congress has a role to play, in determining that the certificates received are valid certificates, and accepting them or not accepting them.
This is different from saying, "I don't like the vote on this ballot, therefore I will not accept it."