Again, two straightforward options if both Rs vote against certification:

1) Dems seek a court order to certify, which the courts have granted in the past

2) Whitmer can replace the R board members who are refusing to do their job https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1330588907604480001

And again, if for some reason the courts fail here, and the MI legislature decides to send Trump electors, the law says that the executive’s (Whitmer’s) slate of electors should be recognized by Congress (where a majority in both houses now recognize Biden’s win).

Republicans in Michigan may try their best to disenfranchise every voter in their state, D or R, but they cannot and will not change the results of the election.

Apologies for tweeting about this so many times, but I have a suspicion that if the Rs on the board refuse to certify tomorrow (very very possible!), there will be a lot more drama and anxiety on here than simple explanations about what happens next.

And, by the way, Chatfield in this interview is absolutely setting up a scenario where the MI legislature sends their own slate of electors if the courts fail to break a deadlock, which means his meeting with Trump was exactly what we all thought it was: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1330541596098564097