legislatures which would then need to meet in an emergency electoral session." in other words, even though there were not two slates of electors from every state, ellis' memo was pushing for a way for pence to push the legislatures, to convene and create them. five of six of the states have republican legislatures, we should note. this plan was counting on their participation. another ellis memo january 5th, the day before the insurrection, quote, the vice president should begin alphabetically in order of the states and coming first to arizona, not open the purported certification but simply count the stop at that juncture, end quote. the states would then have to act. ellis tweeted in response to the politico story she never, quote, advocated pence had the authority to overturn the election and the memo simply outlined, quote, legal theories i explored. except we know that vice