The counting was never stopped in several states....After which the tallies of all * mysteriously* and in defiance of all statistical probabilities flipped to the same guy.2000. That was the pt of O'Connor's opinion. The date for certification is essentially a drop dead date.
Fact is that there is no example of any similarity -in US history anyway- of the counting stopping in several states and beginning again.
Such a thing did, however, happen in Venezuela...Who "won" there?