Certification
of recent US Presidential votes
Source: https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/2016/certificates-of-ascertainment.html
The Meeting of the Electors is scheduled for
Monday, December 19, 2016
Certificates of Ascertainment
Each
Certificate of Ascertainment lists the:
- names of the Electors chosen by
the voters and the number of votes received
- names of all other candidates
for Elector and the number of votes received
The
Governor of each State prepares seven original Certificates of Ascertainment
listing the persons appointed as Electors as soon as possible after the
November election. Each Certificate must be signed by the Governor and carry
the seal of the State. But, Federal law does not govern the general appearance
of the Certificate of Ascertainment. Click on the links below to view each
state's Certificate of Ascertainment from the 2016 Presidential Election.
Certificates will be posted as they are received and verified for completeness and accuracy. State links will become live once certificates are posted. If a link is not live yet, check back later.
Certificates will be posted as they are received and verified for completeness and accuracy. State links will become live once certificates are posted. If a link is not live yet, check back later.
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2016 presidential election is officially over
on Friday afternoon
The last phase of the contentious 2016 presidential election
will take place on Friday afternoon, January 6, 2017, at 1 p.m. during a joint
session of Congress. Here’s what to expect, if you plan to follow the event on
C-SPAN.
As you’ll recall, the general election on November 8, 2016
resulted in Republican candidate Donald J. Trump besting Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton in the tally of Electoral College votes. The preliminary
Electoral College vote count was 306 votes for Trump and 232 votes for Clinton,
with challenges expected in three states: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
On December 13, the 50 states and the District of Columbia filed certificates of
ascertainment six days prior to the Electoral College voting. Each
certificate confirmed the presidential election results within a state and
listed the slates of electors representing each candidate.
On December 19, the electors met in 51 locations around the
country. Several faithless electors were barred from voting under state laws,
while others were permitted to vote for qualified candidates other than the
people that had pledged to vote for.
In the end, Trump received 304 of the 306 votes pledged to him
by electors back on November 8. Clinton received 227 of the 232 votes pledged
to her. Other electoral votes went to Colin Powell (three), John Kasich, Ron
Paul, Bernie Sanders and Faith Spotted Eagle (one vote each). Also receiving
votes for Vice President were Elizabeth Warren, Susan Collins, Maria Cantwell,
Winona LaDuke, and Carly Fiorina.
After the Electoral College voting, official Certificates of
Vote were sent to the Vice President (acting as President of the Senate), state
officials, the federal court that had jurisdiction over the state capital area,
and the federal Archivist. The vote certificates were due in Washington by
December 28. Those have been received and made public on the
National Archives website.
On Friday afternoon, current Vice President Joe Biden will
preside over the official vote counting in a joint session of Congress held in
the House’s chambers. The Vice President will open the vote certificates and
pass them to four members of Congress, who count the votes. If there is a
majority winner with at least 270 electoral votes and there are no objections
filed by members of Congress, the Presidential election is certified and over.
However, the Vice President must also ask if anyone objects in
Congress during the vote counting as each state result is announced: “Upon such
reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall
call for objections, if any,” the law reads.
If one member of the House and Senate each object, in writing,
to the same elector or slate of electors for a state, the House and Senate go
into private meetings to vote on the objections. The Senate will retire to its
own chambers to meet and the House will remain in its location. Each session
can last no longer than two hours and each member can speak for no more than
five minutes. The House and Senate must both agree to accept an objection.
The last time this happened was on January 6, 2005. When
Ohio’s votes were announced for George W. Bush, the chair recognized Stephanie
Tubbs Jones, a House Representative from Ohio. “Mr. Vice President, I seek to
object to the electoral votes of the State of Ohio on the ground that they were
not, under all of the known circumstances, regularly given and have a signed
objection, and I do have a Senator,” Jones said, acknowledging that Senator
Barbara Boxer has signed on to her objection.
Vice President Dick Cheney then called for a recess for each
chamber of Congress to discuss the objection in separate sessions. When
the joint session resumed, the votes were announced: Only one Senator and
33 House members agreed to the objection. “Pursuant to the law, chapter 1 of
title 3, United States Code, because the two Houses have not sustained the
objection, the original certificate submitted by the State of Ohio will be
counted as provided therein,” Cheney announced, and the vote tally continued.
Without a delay caused by objections, the vote counting goes
quickly. On January 4, 2013, the vote count for the Obama-Romney results
started at 1:05 p.m. and concluded at 1:29 p.m. with no objections raised.
“This announcement of the state of the vote by the President of
the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected
President and Vice President of the United States each for the term beginning
on the 20th day of January, 2013, and shall be entered, together with the list
of the votes, on the Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives,”
Biden announced, ending the joint session.
Back in January 2001, the vote counting was delayed by a protest
on the floor about Florida’s Electoral Votes led by House members belonging to
the Congressional Black Caucus. The presiding officer, Vice President Al Gore,
ruled the protest out of order, and he had the distinction of declaring his
opponent, Bush, as the winner of the presidential election around 3 p.m.
From Friday afternoon until 12 p.m. on January 20, 2017, the
winner is officially the President-elect until taking the oath of office.
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Electoral College results, US Presidential vote margins –
Source:
Donald Trump ranked at 46th (of 56 ranked) in number of
Electoral College votes tallied, behind such luminaries as James
Buchanan, James A. Garfield, and Martin Van Buren.
The
formula for calculation of results, and the ranking itself is shown at the cited
website.
To
reflect the results, certified as required by law, in some other way, or to
state they were rigged, miscounted, or that other vote tallies apply, is
deceitful, delusional, and a lie.
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