Come January 6th:

(Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. - Stalin)

"Come January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence will be presented with the sealed certificates containing the ballots of the presidential electors.

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At that moment, the Presidency will be in his hands.

And there is nothing stopping Pence, under the (plenary and unappealable) authority vested in him as President of the Senate, from declining to open and count the certificates from the six disputed states.

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If they are (as more than 70% of Republicans believe) certificates from non-electors appointed via voter fraud, why should he open & count them?"

If the votes of all 7 contested states are registered as zero, President Trump will have 232 votes, Joe Biden will have 222.

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Per the 12th Amendment: "[T]he votes shall then be counted[.] ... The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President[.]"

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More here - https://macris.substack.com/p/who-counts-the-votes-of-the-presidential

PS: "Thomas Jefferson ... among the most revered founding fathers of our country, only became President because he used his unilateral power as President of the Senate to open and count the presidential ballots in his own favor." https://macris.substack.com/p/who-counts-the-votes-of-the-presidential