I believe that the point was that if that group decided to overturn the results, the democratic will of the entire population would not have overruled them. Th

I believe that the point was that if that group decided to overturn the results, the democratic will of the entire population would not have overruled them. The intent of those provisions is for a case like 1877 when the democratic will of the people was actually in question. Unanticipated in the Constitution was that a group of violent people would attempt to force Congress and the Senate to overturn the results. Had the protestors succeeded in that goal, it would have effectively ended the Republic. We would continue to be a Republic in name, just as Rome was after Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC. But not in reality. And not too many years would pass before even that charade ended. As happened in Rome when Augustus Caesar became the first real emperor.