[VIDEO] Well Liberal Hivemind still has hope over this idea of dueling electors. And cited the example of the 1876 election where Rutherford Hayes was elected president where like in 1888, 2000, & 2016 he lost the popular vote and won in the electoral college.
According to the Chicago Tribune over a month ago:
These guardrails were erected after the disputed presidential election of 1876, in which multiple states in the Reconstruction South cast competing sets of electoral votes. To sort out the mess, Congress formed a bipartisan commission of representatives, senators and Supreme Court justices, who awarded the votes to popular-vote loser Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes won the electoral vote 185-184.
That article is a fascinating history and illustrates the 1960 election also:
That’s what happened with Hawaii in 1960, with little fanfare. Congress chose to accept and count a third slate of electoral votes, for Kennedy, submitted by the state’s governor in January. By then, a recount had shown Kennedy won the state’s popular vote. Kennedy, who already had a clear majority of electoral votes from elsewhere, became president.
Now, I don't know if it'll work out this way. Legal Insurrection doesn't think so dueling electors going to Congress on January 6, 2021 is a dead end.
However, we're reaching the end of the attempts to contest the 2020 presidential race.
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