The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-30
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
And the Laws Relating to the Counting Of the
Electoral Vets.

The constitution Cart. 2, Sec. ~
| provides that teach State shall ap-
| point. in such manner as the Legisla-
ture thereof may direct, number of
| electors equal to the whole number of
Senators and Representatives. to which
the State may be entitled" etc. Also
that Congress may determine tho
time Of choosing the electors, and the
day on which they shall give their
votes, which day shall be the same
throughout the United States"
The twelfth amendment provides
that the electors shall ''meet in their
respective States and vote by ballot
for President and Vice President, one
of whom shall not be all inhabtant of
the same State with themselves" and
again, "that they shall make distinct
lists of all persons voted for as Presi-
dent' 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 President of the Senate. The
President of the Senate shall, in pres
enco of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, open all the certificates,
and the votes snail then be counted.
The person having the greatest num-
Der of votes for President, if such
number be a majority of the whole
number of electors appointed" etc.
The following regulations will be
found in the revised statutes of the
United States, as adopted from the
original acts of 1892 and 1907:
SEC. 1876. The electors for each
State shall meet and give their votes
upon the first Wednesday in December
in the year in which they are appoint
ed, at such place in each State as the
Legislature of each State shall direct
SEC. 1876. 1t shall be the duty of
the Executive of each State to cause
three lists of the names OF the electors
of such State to be made and certified,
and to be delivered to the electors on
or before the day on which they are
required by the preceding section to
meet
SEC. 1877. The electors shall vote
for President and Vice President, re-
spectivcly, in the manner directed by
the constitution.
SEC. 1888. The electors shall make
and sign three certificates of all the
votes given by them, each of which
certificates shall contain two distinct
lists, one of the votes cast for Presi-
dent and the other of the votes for
Vice President, and shall annex to
each of the certificates one of the lists
of the electors which shall have been
furnished to them by direction of the
Executive of the State.
SEC. 139. The electors shall seal up
the certificates so made by them, and
certify upon each that the lists of all
the votes of such State given for Pres
ident, and of all the votes given for
Vice President, are contained therein.
SEC. 40. The electors shall dispose
of the certificates thus made by them
in the following manner:
1. They shall, by writing, under
their names or under the hands of
majority of them, appoint person to
take charge of and deliver to the Pres
ident of the Senate, at the seat of gov
eminent, before the first Wednesday
in January then next ensuing one of
the certificates.
2. They shall forthwith forward by
the post Office, to the President of the
Senate, at the seat of government, one
other of the certificates.
3. They shall forthwith cause the
other of the certificates to be delivered
to the Judge of the district IN which
the electors shall assemble.
SEC. 142. Congress shall be in ses-
sion on the second Wednesday in Feb
ruary succeeding every meeting of the
electors, and the certificates, or so
many of them as have been received,
shall then be opened. the votes count
ed, and the persons to fill the Offices OF
President and Vice President ascer-
tanned and declared, agreeable to the
constitution.