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3 U.S.C. § 13 — Same; demand on district judge for certificate

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If a state's certificate of electoral votes still has not arrived by the fourth Wednesday in December, the President of the Senate sends a special messenger to the district judge who holds a copy. The judge must send that copy back with the messenger right away.

This section is a backup plan for a missing state certificate of electoral votes. If no certificate of votes from a state has reached the seat of government by the fourth Wednesday in December, the President of the Senate — or the Archivist of the United States, if the President of the Senate is away from the seat of government — sends a special messenger to the district judge who holds one certificate of that state's votes. That judge must immediately hand the certificate to the messenger to carry back to the seat of government.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

When, after the meeting of the electors shall have been held, no certificates of votes from any State shall have been received at the seat of government on the fourth Wednesday in December, the President of the Senate or, if the President of the Senate be absent from the seat of government, the Archivist of the United States shall send a special messenger to the district judge in whose custody one certificate of votes from that State has been lodged, and such judge shall forthwith transmit that certificate by the hand of such messenger to the seat of government.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 9, 65 Stat. 712; Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(e)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2291; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 108(b), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5237.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 644 · 62 Stat. 674
  • 1951Amended · Act of Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655 · 65 Stat. 712
  • 1984Amended · Pub. L. 98-497 · 98 Stat. 2291
  • 2022Amended · Pub. L. 117-328 · 136 Stat. 5237

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 644 on 1948-06-25.

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