The National Archives & Records Administration web page is posting copies of the 2012 Certificates of Ascertainment received from each state. This is a document that tells the total number of valid votes received by each candidate for presidential elector. The web page is also posting copies of each state’s electoral college vote, as the states submit them. See here.
The District of Columbia’s Certificate of Ascertainment appears faulty. It asserts that the only qualified presidential elector candidates were those pledged to President Obama, Mitt Romney, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein. Actually, there were also three legally-qualified presidential elector candidates in D.C. pledged to Rocky Anderson, but the Certificate does not list them. Anderson was a declared write-in candidate in D.C.
A blatant subversion of the 12th Amdt ???
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The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; — the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; *** rest omitted
Note the *in the presence of* and *open all the certificates*
NO mention of the national archives in the 12th Amdt.
Demo Rep: There’s nothing in the 12th Amendment that says that the electors can’t send copies of their certificates to the National Archives as well.
3 U.S.C. section 11 says that the electors shall first send a certificate to the President of the Senate (thus complying with the 12th Amendment), then send two copies to their own state’s secretary of state, then send two copies to the Archivist of the United States, then send a certificate to the judge of the local Federal district court.
Don’t know if it’s just my computer/ISP, but these are very sluggish and slow to pull up. Usually pdf files “load” in just a few seconds for me. Could also be that the National Archives site has low bandwidth. LMK. Thanks.
NO robot party hack mere U.S.A. law can subvert the Constitution.
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again — abolish the EVIL timebomb E.C. and gerrymander Senate.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Thank you for posting these links. It was nice to see my name officially listed as an Elector for the Libertarian Party in Florida. Also thank you to the 44,000 + people who voted for the Libertarian Party electors in Florida. We came in third.
@2 – many states don’t have secretaries of state though.