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The Green Papers: 2012 General Election
 
Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm Counting and Tabulation of the Electoral Vote by Congress
Friday 4 January 2013
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TABULATION JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS

The 2012 Electoral Votes (those formally cast by Presidential Electors back on 17 December 2012: these Electors having been "appointed [as well as- at least theoretically- "pledged"] via the results of the Presidential Election in each of the 50 States plus the District of Columbia back on 6 November 2012) are counted and tabulated before a Joint Session of both houses of Congress, presided over by the constitutional President of the Senate (Vice President Joe BIDEN), after which it is officially declared who has been elected President and Vice President of the United States of America.

Vice President Biden gaveled the Tabulation Joint Session to order at at 1:07 PM EST (1807 UTC)

538 total Electoral Votes (1 per each U.S. Senator and Representative in Congress to which each State is entitled, plus 3 for D.C.)- thus, there were 538 duly appointed Presidential Electors re: 2012.

No objections were raised by any Senators or Representatives to the counting and tabulating of the Electoral Vote from any State (or the District of Columbia). The Certificates of the Electoral Vote from all 51 jurisdictions seemed "to be regular in form and authentic" and the total Electoral Vote as "ascertained and delivered to the President of the Senate" by the four Tellers- two from each house of Congress, one from each side of the aisle:

  • from the UNITED STATES SENATE
    • Senator Lamar ALEXANDER (R-Tennessee)
    • Senator Chuck SCHUMER (D-New York)
  • from the U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
    • Congressman Robert BRADY (D-Pennsylvania)
    • Congressman Candice MILLER (R-Michigan)

was determined to be as follows:

270 Electoral Votes (a Majority of same) necessary to elect

Therefore, it was officially declared that

  • BARACK H. OBAMA was re-elected President of the United States
  • JOSEPH R. BIDEN was re-elected Vice President of the United States

for four-year terms beginning at Noon EST (1700 UTC), 20 January 2013.

Vice President Biden dissolved the Tabulation Joint Session at 1:29 P.M. EST (1829 UTC)

 
 
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