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Anons, the Electoral Act of 1948 clarified what Article 2 Section 1 Clause 3 of the Constitution does not. No where in Clause 3 does it state that the President of the Senate, the Vice President, have the authority to chose which electors from the respective states are valid or not.
3 US Code 15 (Counting Electoral Votes) does lay out what happens if electors from whichever state are disputed and it is THIS………… that VP Pence did not follow through on. If there is an objection to a state's electoral certification the objection must be in writing and must be presented by one House of Representative and one Senator. Upon this objection the POTS adjourns the meeting of both chambers and both chambers are to adjourn, go to their respective chambers and debate as to whether or not the electoral votes from states that were objected to, are valid or not. If both chambers seperately agree that the electoral votes from that particular state in which the objection was raised, are invalid, they get thrown out. If one chamber says yea and the other says nay, those electoral votes are counted.
It is this procedure laid out in 3 US Code 15 that VP Pence did not follow. And even then, no where in this law does it give the President of the Senate the authority to accept or not accept the electoral vote of the state in question. That is solely the power of Congress as writen in this law.