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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 644 -JUNE 25, 1948 673 the number of electors shall be according to the then existing apportion- ment of Senators and Representatives. VACANCIES IN ELECTORAL COLLEGE § 4. Each State may, by law, provide for the filling of any vacancies which may occur in its college of electors when such college meets to give its electoral vote. DETERMINATION OF CONTROVERSY AS TO APPOINTMENT OF ELECTORS § 5. If any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final deter- mination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned. CREDENTIALS OF ELECTORS; TRANSMISSION TO SECRETARY OF STATE AND TO CONGRESS; PUBLIC INSPECTION § 6. It shall be the duty of the executives of each State, as soon as practicable after the conclusion of the appointment of the electors in such State by the final ascertainment, under and in pursuance of the laws of such State providing for such ascertainment, to com- municate by registered mail under the seal of the State to the Secre- tary of State of the United States a certificate of such ascertainment of the electors appointed, setting forth the names of such electors and the canvass or other ascertainment under the laws of such State of the number of votes given or cast for each person for whose appoint- ment any and all votes have been given or cast; and it shall also there- upon be the duty of the executive of each State to deliver to the elec- tors of such State, on or before the day on which they are rleuired by section 7 of this title to meet, six duplicate-originals of the same I f,*. certificate under the seal of the State; and if there shall have been any final determination in a State in the manner provided for by law of a controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, it shall be the duty of the executive of such State, as soon as practicable after such determination, to com- municate under the seal of the State to the Secretary of State of the United States a certificate of such determination in form and manner as the same shall have been made; and the certificate or certificates so received by the Secretary of State shall be preserved by him for one year and shall be a part of the public records of his office and shall be open to public inspection; and the Secretary of State of the United States at the first meeting of Congress thereafter shall trans- mit to the two Houses of Congress copies in full of each and every such certificate so received at the State Department. MEETING AND VOTE OF ELECTORS § 7. The electors of President and Vice President of each State shall meet and give their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednes- day in December next following their appointment at such place in each State as the legislature of such State shall direct. 68706---49--pt. -1 4

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