“Well, they did it in Hawaii in 1960. They had an alternative slate,” Watters countered. “It’s fine. It’s been done before. And the other thing is, like, why can’t you just ask Mike Pence to do that? Mike Pence said no.”
I hadn't heard of that, so I looked it up:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Hawaii
That was Kennedy vs Nixon, and there were important differences vs the shitshow that happened in 2020/2021:
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after the first full count, Nixon was ahead by just 147 votes, but there were legit math errors in the count
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nobody invoked fraud claims to justify the recount, but they just wanted the count to be accurate.
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the full retabulation couldn't finish by the safe harbor deadline, so everyone agreed to certify both slates of electors. One slate wasn't done on the sly.
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just before Congress counted the votes, they affirmed that Kennedy actually won, and the Republican governor air-mailed his certification to Congress.
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Both slates were presented to the Vice President, and he got unanimous consent from the Senate to accept Kennedy's slate and ignore Nixon's.
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That VP was Nixon himself!
Richard Millhous Nixon himself, with more integrity than Donald Trump....