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My understanding is that if lawsuits were to tie up the states and prevent them from certifying their votes then the state legislature would appoint the electors.

TrumpingTits says

No, there is zero chance.

This has been covered before.

Yep - it has, I think you may be referring to a thread I started:

https://www.patrick.net/post/1335003/2020-09-10-my-prediction-for-the-election-of-2020

It was pointed out I was full of shit, and didn't know what I was talking about. I had to concur.

For the record, I think I was basically correct up to step #4. #3 may be incorrect based on the duration, but we'll see.

TrumpingTits says

Therefore the Red States will outvote the Blue States in the House - even if the Dems otherwise control the House nornally. All on the first vote held, probably. All Trump needs is 26 votes out of 50. And he'll carry at least that many if not more, because several non-hard core Red States that have enough GOP Reps outnumbering the Dem Reps in their total delegation will call the shots on casting that delegation's collective ONE vote. The only wild cards will be the states with an even 50-50 party split of Representatives.

But even with the wild cards, Trump will have more than enough state delegations beyond the 26 magic number to burn, I think.

I believe this is the piece on Congress making an election decision.

The question is that since it's still a Democratic house, wouldn't delaying and obstructing it, with Pelosi as the stand-in President via the succession act/rules, be the most advantageous for them?

I could be making this up, but I don’t think it’s an all or nothing thing.

States that are able to certify their election results by the deadline go by that. If a state is unable to, the state legislature would pick the electors.

I don’t think the house is involved at all. I think you are thinking about government succession, in which case the speaker is 3rd in line.

TrumpingTits says

State Legislatures would directly intervene by assigning Electors themselves

Yes, this is true but if that particular state is the one with the disputed tally with indications of voter fraud, does the Legislature pick an Elector with an exact candidate to vote for or does the Elector still need 'to wait it out' for the voting recount/reconfiguration/etc to occur for his decision?