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3 U.S.C. § 4 — Vacancies in electoral college
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Each state can pass a law, before election day, that says how to fill any vacancy that comes up among its presidential electors when the group meets to cast its electoral votes.
Each state may pass a law, before election day, that sets out how to fill any vacancy that might happen among its presidential electors — its "college of electors" — at the time that college meets to cast the state's electoral votes.
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Each State may, by law enacted prior to election day, provide for the filling of any vacancies which may occur in its college of electors when such college meets to give its electoral vote.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 673; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5234.)
history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 644 · 62 Stat. 673
- 2022Amended · Pub. L. 117-328 · 136 Stat. 5234
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 644 on 1948-06-25.
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