But, but, it was seared, SEARED, into my mind, I tell ya!
Posted on 11/09/2004 2:13:39 PM PST by kyperman
The final and most important vote certification will be on January 6th, when the Vice President counts the electoral votes.
When the Electoral College meets ... same as 2000, 1996 (unngh), 1992 (ralph), 1988, 1984, 1980, 1976 (shudder), 1972, 1968...
Is there a date that the electoral college meets?
In Wisconsin, the official totals are available on December 1.
Sometime in mid-December but I cannot recall the exact date right now.
The Monday after the second Wednesday in December following each presidential election.
Each state's electors meet in their state capitals in December (on the first Monday following the second Wednesday, i.e. whatever Monday occurs between December 13th and December 19th inclusive, which is always exactly 41 days after the popular election), at which time they cast their electoral votes. Thus the electoral college never meets as one body. The electoral votes are then sealed and sent to the President of the Senate (i.e. the sitting Vice President of the United States), who retains them until the new Congress convenes in January. At that time, the votes are opened and counted in the presence of both houses of Congress. The candidate who receives a majority of electoral votes for President becomes President, and the candidate who receives a majority of electoral votes for Vice President becomes Vice-President.
If no candidate receives an absolute electoral majority for President, then the new House of Representatives is required to go into session immediately to vote for President. In this case, the top three electoral vote getters for President are the candidates for the House of Representatives to select from, and the House votes en-bloc by state for this purpose (that is, one vote per state, which is determined by the majority decision of the delegation from that state; if a state delegation is evenly split that state is considered as abstaining). This vote would be repeated if necessary until one candidate receives the votes of more than half the state delegations -- at least 26 state votes, given the current number, 50, of states in the union.
If no candidate receives an absolute majority of electoral votes for Vice President, then the United States Senate must do the same, with the top two vote getters for that office as candidates. The Senate votes in the normal manner in this case, not by States. It is unclear if the sitting Vice President would be entitled to cast his usual tie-breaking vote if the Senate should be evenly split on the matter.
If the House of Representatives has not chosen a winner in time for the inauguration (noon on January 20), then the Constitution of the United States specifies that the new Vice President becomes Acting President until the House selects a President. If the winner of the Vice Presidential election is not known by then either, then under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives would become Acting President until the House selects a President.
"WASHINGTON (CNN) - On December 18, electors from all 50 states are scheduled to pick the president. An 1887 law fixes this as the date for electors to cast their ballots, constitutional law scholars said Friday."
The date the Electoral College meets is December 13 (the Monday after the 2nd Wednesday).
Fairly easy to find this answer on the Internet. It's around December 10th. Each state independently will certify its results during mid-November in preparation and declare which winning slate of electors will cast ballots during December. But the ballots are not counted until the new Congress convenes, during the first week of January.
Just found the above post, you were correct...very impressive.
December 18.
Oops, that is the date they met in 2000.
You know...the more I learn about all this stuff, the more impressed I am with the founders...they thought of everything...very smart people.
December 13; they don't really "meet." They got to their respective state capitols.
That was 2000.
"Ohio law provides for a recount if the margin is less than a quarter of 1 percent. Ohio allows military ballots to come in as many as 10 days after the election, so long as they were postmarked by Election Day. Local boards cannot begin to count provisional ballots until Nov. 13, and that could take "several weeks" said LoParo. Boards have until Dec. 1 to certify final results."
But, but, it was seared, SEARED, into my mind, I tell ya!
There is another deadline... the "Safe Harbor" deadline, which was a factor in the Bush vs Gore decision.
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