Faun
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Not unless there's objections raised, and there were. It happened before in the late 1800's.
Objections can only be raised by Representatives and Senators, and they did raise such an objection; which was being debated by both chambers when they were forced to go into recess because Trump's thugs broke into the Capitol.
And even in the 1800's election you allude to, the VP played no role other than to open all the certificates to be counted, which they did. Then Congress debated the matter until they worked out a backroom deal to decide the winner.