But when the joint session of Congress convened in January, 1961 Congress handed Hawaii’s then three electoral votes to Kennedy. The 1969 incident marked the first time a state’s electoral slate was challenged under the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Congress then created an "Electoral Commission" to determine how to parse out the electoral votes from these states. The Electoral Commission awarded all contested electoral votes to Hayes, making him president, 185 electoral votes to 184 electoral votes for Tilden. The U.S. is into some new turf here as to what happens when multiple states electoral slates are in play.

Source: Fox News January 03, 2021 20:50 UTC