The Constitution offers no provision for Congress voting on whether to accept the election. It doesn't offer that option. It says the electors shall transmit their votes sealed to the president of the senate, the president of the senate shall then open the sealed envelopes in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, and all the votes shall be counted.
It doesn't even say the senate and the house are the vote-counters. It would appear they are there simply as poll watchers. Now, what an open-door for corruption that would be. If poll watchers in some states in this election had the authority to vote on whether to accept the election results, they would have.
If this is to be a matter of upholding the Constitution, the 12 senators and 140 house members (all Republicans) should not be taking authority nor taking action that the Constitution does not give them.
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