Title 3 — The PresidentRelease 119-73not60
§9 Certificates of Votes for President and Vice President
Title 3 › Chapter 1— PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES › § 9
Summary
Electors must make and sign six certificates that list all the votes they cast. Each certificate must have two separate lists — one for President and one for Vice President — and must include the state's certificate of ascertainment showing the electors' appointment that the state executive gave them.
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Title 3, §9
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The electors shall make and sign six certificates of all the votes given by them, each of which certificates shall contain two distinct lists, one of the votes for President and the other of the votes for Vice President, and shall annex to each of the certificates of votes one of the certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors which shall have been furnished to them by direction of the executive of the State.
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2022—Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “annex to each of the certificates of votes one of the certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors” for “annex to each of the certificates one of the lists of the electors”.
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3 U.S.C. § 9
Title 3 — The President
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
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