Meanwhile, alternative slates of electors are meeting in swing states won by President-elect Biden, including Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin, to cast votes for President Trump in the hopes that federal courts will rule the electoral votes cast for Biden invalid.
“As we speak today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and send those votes up to Congress,” Trump aide Stephen Miller told Fox News early Monday. “This will ensure all of our legal remedies will remain open.”
Legal observers, however, say that such votes are no more than political theater. “These electors have neither been certified by state executives nor purportedly appointed by state legislators,” wrote Rick Hasen, an election-law expert at the University of California, Irvine, on his blog. “They don’t have legal authority and so this does not affect the counting of Electoral College votes.”
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