No, There Aren’t ‘Alternate Electors’ to Vote for Trump

Nick Corasaniti and Jim RutenbergTracking viral misinformation

Since President Trump lost Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and Michigan, and numerous state and federal courts have rejected Republicans’ baseless claims of voting fraud, the “alternate slates” in these states would have no actual significance.

Yet the president’s supporters have seized upon some superficial murkiness in the Constitution and federal law as to whether a state legislature could appoint its own slate of electors.