"Duly elected" simply means "properly chosen by voting".
Half the population thinks that's the case. There is no evidence to suggest that these people were signing off on something that they didn't believe.
Please don't make any excuses for these disgusting prosecutions.
Re: 36 - What matters is if the state legislature convened and the alternate electors were selected.
That did not happen in -any- state. Several states had alternate electors attesting that they were the duly “authorized” electors, when in fact they were not.