The Constitution
directs the president of the Senate to open the certificates of the election results from the states in the presence of the Senate and House and instructs that the votes “shall then be counted,” said Garrett Epps, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Oregon. He noted that the vice president is not explicitly referenced. However, the vice president
serves as president of the Senate; if absent, the senior most senator from the majority party
serves in that role.
That language indicates Congress — not just the president of the Senate — is to count the votes, Epps said, and doesn’t afford the vice president any special power to overturn them.
Vice president doesn’t have power to ‘change the outcome’ of elections
False. The vice president has no power to unilaterally “change” or overturn the presidential election results of a state under the Constitution or any law, experts say.
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