Title 3, The PresidentRelease 119-102

§9 Certificates of Votes for President and Vice President

Title 3 › CHAPTER 1 — PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES › § 9

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

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Electors must sign six certificates, each showing separate lists of votes for President and for Vice President and including the state's certificate of appointment.

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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

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Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102