It would have sounded like parliamentary jargon to most people watching the session on January 6, 2021.
He said at the time that the certificates would be regular in form and authentic, and that the parliamentarians had told him that was the only certificate of vote from that state.
It was a mouthful. The Electoral Count Act is a law that governs the counting of electoral votes. The law requires that any electoral votes be submitted by state authorities.
The Jan. 6 select committee is interested in the mystery of the added words. The panel's top investigator, Tim Heaphy, asked Short about the decision to change the language, and even played a video clip of previous vice presidents saying the same thing.
The Vice President's script had been read by Vice Presidents over the course of 20 or 30 years.
The main reason was that the Vice President wanted to be transparent. The transcript was cut short.
Short explained in an interview that the new words were added to address the views of Trump allies and the push for false slates of presidential electors. The supporters of the president would be wondering why the vice president wouldn't consider the slates.
The source said that members of Congress who were aligned with Trump were in favor of changing the wording to allow for alternate electors. The source said that Pence intended to lay out his thinking so that the members wouldn't make procedural challenges.
The alternate electors were pointed to by top Trump allies as a way to keep the election challenge alive. They were built into his strategy to get Pence to overturn the election.
He had to explain his reasons for saying no in the language he used.
In the year since he resisted the election subversion push, the former vice president has subtly critiqued Trump. There is no room in the party for apologists for Putin, according to a statement by Vice President Mike Pence. Trump was wrong to claim that he could determine the outcome of the election.
The involvement of Trump and his network in the submission of false elector slates to Congress is being investigated by the select committee.
The Electoral Count Act requires that the winning candidate's electors meet in December to cast their votes. In seven states won by Biden, the Trump campaign worked with state Republican parties to organize their own meetings and cast their votes. The false electors signed certificates and sent them to Washington.
The outcome of the slates was in dispute. The Electoral Count Act does not allow adjournments during the count, but if Pence were to do so, he would be able to urge state legislatures to resolve the disputes.
A partial transcript of Jacob's testimony to the select committee was filed in federal court. Those comments formed the core of the select committee's recent suggestion that it believes Eastman may have been involved in a conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election.
He believes his efforts had a legitimate legal basis. He is trying to shield some of his emails from the select committee.
Trump supporters were furious when the alternate electors were refused to entertain them. The building was broken into by hundreds within an hour.
Eastman exchanged tense emails with Jacob. In one remarkably blunt missive, Pence's counsel accused Eastman of being a serpent in the ear of the president of the United States.
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