3 USC § 10 - Sealing and endorsing certificates

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identifier: "/us/usc/t3/s10"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "3 USC § 10 - Sealing and endorsing certificates"
title_number: 3
title_name: "THE PRESIDENT"
section_number: "10"
section_name: "Sealing and endorsing certificates"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 106(b), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5236.)"
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# § 10. Sealing and endorsing certificates

The electors shall seal up the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors, and certify upon each that the lists of all the votes of such State given for President, and of all the votes given for Vice President, are contained therein.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 106(b), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5236.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022— substituted “the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors” for “the certificates so made by them”.