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Title 3 — The President

Chapter 1 — Presidential Elections and Vacancies

§ 9. Certificates of votes for President and Vice President

Statutory text

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.

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.

  1. The President

    Pub. L. 80–644 · 62 Stat. 672

    Enacted · 3 U.S.C. § 9

    June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674

  2. Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2023

    Pub. L. 117–328 div. P title I § 104(c)(1) · 136 Stat. 4459

    Substituted · 3 U.S.C. § 9

    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”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    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”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 104. The requirements set forth by section 105 of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55), as amended by section 105 of title I of division B of Public Law 113–6, are hereby adopted by reference and made applicable with respect to fiscal year 2023: Provided, That the life cycle cost for the Joint Polar Satellite System is $11,322,125,000, the life cycle cost of the Polar Follow On Program is $6,837,900,000, the life cycle cost for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series Program is $11,700,100,000, and the life cycle cost for the Space Weather Follow On Program is $692,800,000.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

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”.

Credits

1948–2022 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674
  2. 2022Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 104(c)(1), , 136 Stat. 5236.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 104(c)(1), , 136 Stat. 5236.)

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