Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 1 — Election of Senators and Representatives
§ 9. Voting for Representatives
Statutory text
All votes for Representatives in Congress must be by written or printed ballot, or voting machine the use of which has been duly authorized by the State law; and all votes received or recorded contrary to this section shall be of no effect.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
R.S. § 27
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 9
R.S. § 27
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 27
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 27 derived from acts Feb. 28, 1871, ch. 99, § 19, 16 Stat. 440, and May 30, 1872, ch. 239, 17 Stat. 192.
Credits
1899 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 27
- 1899Feb. 14, 1899, ch. 154, 30 Stat. 836.
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(R.S. § 27; Feb. 14, 1899, ch. 154, 30 Stat. 836.)