Vice President Pence Must Reject Swing State Biden Electors Absent Certification by State Lawmakers

Vice President Pence Must Reject Swing State Biden Electors Absent Certification by State Lawmakers
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a Defend The Majority campaign event in Columbus, Ga., on Dec. 17, 2020. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
Stephen B. Meister
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Commentary
In late November, I wrote on these pages that “the Founding Fathers made a wise and prescient choice in setting up the Electoral College and vesting the state legislatures with exclusive authority to decide upon a state’s presidential electors. The multifaceted fraud issues that infect national elections (especially this one) aren’t easily and timely raised within the tight contours of a judicial ‘case or controversy.’”