Title 3The PresidentRelease 119-73not60

§10 Sealing and Endorsing Certificates

Title 3 › Chapter 1— PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES › § 10

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

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Electors must seal their vote certificates and the related appointment papers, and write on each that the state's votes for President and Vice President are inside.

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Title 3, §10

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The electors shall seal up the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors, and certify upon each that the lists of all the votes of such State given for President, and of all the votes given for Vice President, are contained therein.

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2022—Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors” for “the certificates so made by them”.

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3 U.S.C. § 10

Title 3The President

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Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60