MouthBQ98 said:
I don't get the whole idiotic "fake electors" thing. There was a previously established practice of having an alternate slate of electors selected should various legal challenges happen to alter the outcome of a close state election result. It has just never happened yet. So the alternates are still prospective, and not understood or represented to be the actual current electors.
It's not like they kidnapped the original electors and went in with disguises or fake ID, or showed up when the electors were assembled and got in a fiat fight over who was legit….
The hyperbolics around this are beyond idiotic and should rightly be laughed out of any respectable courtroom.
Particularly so since that was the approved procedure in the 1960 election with Hawaii having two slates during an election recount. In fact, had Hawaii not sent both slates, Congress would not have to accept any electors if not done in conformity with the safe harbor provision of the Electoral Count Act.
It is all BS. There were pending cases in the states that were not resolved but the deadline under the safe harbor provision was looming. And the safe harbor provision was of such importance to SCOTUS in 2000 that they acted extraordinarily fast to rule before that date in
Bush v. Gore.