What's the Theory of the Memmo?

Eastman Memmo says vice president can 'gauge in' as re-elected by throwing out a certain set of total electors, then it tips the balance in trump's favor. The main thing here is that pence should just do this without asking for permission, either from a vote of the joint session, from the court and it gets worse. So again, none of this is remotely plausible, right? Because, factually speaking, there were no alternate slates of electors submitted by any single state. And then second, that twelfth amendment doesn't suggest anything about the vice president's role in this process as being anything but ceremonial. But the constitution assigns this power to the