Is this an official ‘contested’ election?

The electoral college votes are not certified until the congress certifies them. Constitutionally, no one is ‘President-elect’ until the US Congress certifies at least 270 electoral votes for whichever candidate.
The electoral votes will be counted on Jan 6th by congress, overseen by Senate president Mike Pence.

An ‘alternate slate’ of electors in PA, GA, MI, WI, AZ, NV cast votes, and those results may get sent up to Congress alongside the votes from the ‘official slate’ of electors.
In a traditional contested election, which hasn’t happened in over 100 years, competing slates of electors would be produced, one certified by the governor and the other by the legislature.
The alternative slate of electors are not certified by the state legislature so there is no contested election in a formal sense.

If the current lawsuits play out the way the Trump administration needs them to, the ‘alternate slate’ of electors are already in place.
If they win the cases most necessary in the courts, they can direct those alternate electors be certified.
The Wisconsin supreme court recently ruled that state and local election officials violated the law when they gave blanket permission allowing voters to declare themselves ‘indefinitely confined,’ and skip voter ID requirements.....
Democrat politicians directed Wisconsin democrats to all vote indefinitely confined because of COVID, despite even Dr Fauci saying there was no reason people shouldn’t be able to vote in person.....
Lawyers are in consensus that change violated Wisconsin state law, as well as the constitution.
There’s also a solid challenge to the hundreds of unmanned drop boxes set up in swing states. In many swing states, the deployment of the drop boxes, manned or unmanned, were determined to be a violation of their state laws, as well as the constitution.
The many changes made, erased key safe guards in place needed for verification of the ballots. The changes were made effectively right before the election, and are a violation of the equal protections clause in the constitution, while also being violations of several state laws.
Therefore all of those potentially millions of votes are in fact officially ILLEGAL votes.

These are just a few examples of the legal challenges still in place that the Trump campaign is referring to.
The problem is that the Trump campaign has continuously been getting hammered in court.
The best way to handle this would have been for the republican state legislatures to refuse to certify until the ballots have been audited. They refused to do this, and spit in our faces instead by certifying the votes, and having official electors vote for Biden.
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