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After a presidential election, [2] [3] the ascertainment is submitted by the governor of each state (and by the mayor of the District of Columbia) to the Archivist of the United States [4] [5] [6] and others, [7] in accordance with 3 U.S.C. §§ 6–14 [8] [9] the Electoral Count Act, [10] [11] and the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022.
To become president, a candidate must win 270 electoral votes. A president can win the electoral college without winning the popular vote. This has happened four times in U.S. history, twice in ...
[citation needed] The Act relegated Congress to rejecting electoral votes in only a narrow class of disputes: when a state presented more than one set of electors, when "the electors' votes were not 'regularly given'", or when "the governor had not 'lawfully certified' the electors' appointment".
A question emerged about Ohio’s slate of electoral votes when Congress began certifying the 2004 election in January 2005. ... Pence certified the outcome of the electoral vote just before 4 a.m ...
The Electoral Count Reform Act should simplify what happens when Kamala Harris, as president of the Senate, certifies the election results next year—whether she wins the presidential election or ...
After the vote, each state sends to Congress a certified record of their electoral votes, called the Certificate of Vote. These certificates are opened during a joint session of Congress , held on January 6 [ 113 ] [ non-primary source needed ] unless another date is specified by law, and read aloud by the incumbent vice president, acting in ...
For example, if a candidate wins 50.1% of the vote in Texas, they are given all of the state's 40 electoral votes. A candidate who won a state by a landslide would still pick up the same number of ...
On Jan. 6, Congress meets to count the electoral votes and certify victory for the candidate who has received at least 270. If no presidential candidate gets 270 votes, then Congress will elect ...