3 U.S.C. § 10 (2024)

This is the official text of 3 U.S.C. § 10 (2024), part of Federal (US Code)’s United States Code — the codified general and permanent federal statutes of the United States, organized into more than 50 numbered titles by subject.

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Sealing and endorsing certificates

Official statutory text

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.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, §106(b), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5236.)

Editorial Notes

Amendments

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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