Just listened to one of Trump’s advisors on the topic (Bannon’s war room.) He referred to a governor in Hawaii who recalled electors after fraud was discovered and the recall stood, in 1960. He said, roughly, that “ the Constitution does not prescribe a course of action nor prevent a course of action, and that the Constitution does not mandate that a fraudulent election be accepted as final.”
Such acceptance would lead to the contradiction that adherents to the rule of law are aiding in the destruction of the country by corrupt officials who exploit adherence to the rule of law.
Hawaii didn’t really “recall” it’s electors. The governor of HI certified two different slates of electors. At first, it appeared the GOP candidate, Nixon, had won by 141 votes, so the governor certified the GOP slate to send to congress. After a court-ordered recount showed Kennedy up by 115, the governor signed a second certificate for the Kennedy’s electors.
Nixon, who was VP at the time, counted the Democratic certificate and ignored the GOP one.
All this happened prior to Congressional certification, a key difference from the situation in AZ.
AZ should’ve recalled it’s electors before congress certified the election, not months after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Hawaii
The two slates of certified electors came to DC (that didn’t happen with Arizona in 2020). And that was handled during the electoral vote certification in Congress - which is the time to handle it - not after everything had been certified by Congress and the new president had been inaugurated.
The time for things to have been done to protect against fraud was before the elections took place. I know President Trump’s team knew it was coming. I don’t understand why there wasn’t more actually done before November, 2020.