Our sources are Aseem Mulji, a legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, and Sai Prakash, a constitutional law professor at the UVA School of Law, as well as the federal statute about counting electoral votes. For an objection to pass, a senator and house representative must put it in writing. Then the two chambers would split off to debate the objection and vote. For an objection to be accepted, both the Senate and the House of Representatives have to approve it.