I'm trying to find out too.
Bug said the SoS certified the electors, and then said the constitution said only the state legislatures can do that. So I set about trying to find out for myself. Constitution does not say that. So that's one thing.
So the next thing would be, did PA follow state law. It looks to me like they did. But I'm not seeing anything about legislatures certifying electors. Just that the SoS certifies the election results and then notifies the appropriate electors. Maybe that's the elector certification? But at any rate I did not see in the PA state law where legislators become involved in certifying electors. Their involvement would be at such time that they determine that "the voters failed to choose."
I'm reading an article now about the PA legislature declining to declare that "the voters failed to choose". I put that in quotes because that's a constitutional stipulation. Anyway, I'm not seeing anything constitutionally untoward about the certification process.
I do think that Trump may have a legitimate complaint about the election boards changing the rules counter to election laws WRT extending the deadlines. I don't think they have the authority to do that.
Bug said the SoS certified the electors, and then said the constitution said only the state legislatures can do that. So I set about trying to find out for myself. Constitution does not say that. So that's one thing.
So the next thing would be, did PA follow state law. It looks to me like they did. But I'm not seeing anything about legislatures certifying electors. Just that the SoS certifies the election results and then notifies the appropriate electors. Maybe that's the elector certification? But at any rate I did not see in the PA state law where legislators become involved in certifying electors. Their involvement would be at such time that they determine that "the voters failed to choose."
I'm reading an article now about the PA legislature declining to declare that "the voters failed to choose". I put that in quotes because that's a constitutional stipulation. Anyway, I'm not seeing anything constitutionally untoward about the certification process.
I do think that Trump may have a legitimate complaint about the election boards changing the rules counter to election laws WRT extending the deadlines. I don't think they have the authority to do that.