re: If the Pennsylvania SOS said they weren't counting any white votes from the election?

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In 1800, there was a dispute over the EC votes and Vice President Jefferson made a decision, on his own, to count the votes for himself as president and he won

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There was no actual dispute of EVs it was a matter of a defective certificate and no objections were raised. He simply read the only slate from Georgia which was missing some pro-forma language. That is quite a distinction and also done before the Electoral Count Act was codified.