No, that is not correct.
Actually it is correct. Republican electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico cast alternative slates of votes for President Donald Trump on Dec. 14, as the certified Democrat electors in the same states cast votes for former Vice President Joe Biden.
https://noqreport.com/2020/12/16/electors-in-7-states-cast-dueling-votes-for-trump/
This has happened in the past also. Although it would have been highly controversial for Pence to choose between dueling electors, it would have been constitutionally correct for him to return the issue to the states to resolve before certification by congress.
I agree with what you wrote. That is what I recall happened. Thanks for posting.
The process is laid out in 3 U.S. Code ยง 15 - Counting electoral votes in Congress.
Since the language is rather dense, I'm going to reformat it into an outline form for easier reading.
If more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State shall have been received by the President of the Senate,The bottom line is that if Congress receives competing slates of electors from a state, they will decide which one to accept.those votes, and those only, shall be counted which shall have been regularly given by the electors who are shown by the determination mentioned in section 5 of this title to have been appointed,if the determination in said section provided for shall have been made, or by such successors or substitutes, in case of a vacancy in the board of electors so ascertained, as have been appointed to fill such vacancy in the mode provided by the laws of the State;but in case there shall arise the question which of two or more of such State authorities determining what electors have been appointed, as mentioned in section 5 of this title, is the lawful tribunal of such State,the votes regularly given of those electors, and those only, of such State shall be counted whose title as electors the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide is supported by the decision of such State so authorized by its law;and in such case of more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State, if there shall have been no such determination of the question in the State aforesaid,then those votes, and those only, shall be counted which the two Houses shall concurrently decide were cast by lawful electors appointed in accordance with the laws of the State,unless the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide such votes not to be the lawful votes of the legally appointed electors of such State.But if the two Houses shall disagree in respect of the counting of such votes,then, and in that case, the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted.
-PJ
No, actually it is not correct, and it's misinformation.
Electors met at state capitals (and D.C.) on Dec. 8 to cast their votes.
On December 9, all states (and D.C.) had certified their electoral votes.
You wrote:
"Republican electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico cast alternative slates of votes for President Donald Trump on Dec. 14, as the certified Democrat electors in the same states cast votes for former Vice President Joe Biden"
but that is irrelevant.
The State legislatures have the authority to send a second slate of electors to Congress by January 6 - not a group of Republicans, Democrats or whoever, unless they are acting in their ministerial authority as the Legislature and approve a second slate of electors.
Show me a vote where a State Legislature voted to send a second slate of electors.