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Nope, it goes to the Speaker of the House, but more likely the Supreme Court would just pull a 2000 and assign the presidency.
Wait. Really? So say Biden/Harris are Pres/VP. trump/CarrotTop are pres/vp-elect. trump gets disqualified before the inauguration, so when the inauguration comes around, Biden/Harris are out because they lost, and trump has been disqualified, so it goes to the Speaker? Why is CarrotTop disqualified?
They really didn't do that though. They essentially decided two things:
A state counting some ballots under different rules than other ballots violates equal protection.
Election deadlines are legal and enforceable.
Gore wanted to recount a handful of places under a different standard than the rest of the state (basically changing how to handle undervotes, overvotes, that sort of thing) after the previous count and recount under the state standard did not give him a win, starting this recount just a couple of days before the deadline. Bush asked for an injunction and for SCOTUS to sort it out, and SCOTUS heard the case and issued a judgement in frankly record time, but that still meant their opinion was issued 2 hours before the deadline.
Those looking into the Florida 2000 election after the fact actually came to the conclusion that the last recount Gore called for wouldn't have caused him to win if completed, but an estimate by one org suggests that had it been a statewide recount under the standard Gore wanted to use that that would have tipped things in Gore's favor but that's not a count that had ever been put on the table.