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Here’s why the 2020 election will never be ‘decertified’

Quoted: “‘Decertifying’ (or any variant, such as ‘voiding’) a presidential election after the fact is simply not a thing,” UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer said …

“The complete absence of any decertification mechanism in either the constitution or federal statutory law is a fundamental point,” UW-Madison law school associate professor Robert Yablon said. “That legal silence is glaring given that other aspects of the presidential election process are set out in detail, including in Article II Section 1, the 12th Amendment, and the Electoral Count Act.”