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The Tombstone Epitaph
Tombstone, Pima County, Cochise County, Arizona
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The presidential electoral count bill passed the U.S. Senate without amendment on April 7, outlining procedures for electors' meetings, state determinations of controversies, and congressional counting of votes, including rules for multiple returns.
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Electoral Count Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 7. - The presidential count bill, which passed the senate without amendment, provides that presidential electors in each state shall meet and give their vote on the second Monday in January next following their appointment, at such places as the legislatures may designate, and that each state, pursuant to its laws existing on the day fixed by appointment of electors, may determine, prior to getting electors, any controversy concerning the appointment of all or any of them; that such determination shall be conclusive evidence of their lawful title, and shall govern in the count by congress; that no electoral vote or votes from a state from which but one return has been received shall be rejected except by the affirmative votes of the two houses; that if more than one return is received from a state, the votes of those electors appointed by a lawful tribunal of states shall be counted; and in the event of question as to which of two or more such state tribunals is lawful, the electors appointed by that tribunal which the two houses acting separately shall decide to be the authorized one, shall be counted; that in case of an undetermined case between two or more sets of electors of a state, those votes shall be counted which the two houses, acting separately, shall decide to be lawful electoral votes. The bill also provides that if the counting of votes shall not be completed before the fifth calendar day next after the first joint meeting of the two houses, no recess shall be afterwards taken by either house until the counting is finished.
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Washington
Event Date
April 7
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the bill passed the senate without amendment.
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The presidential count bill provides procedures for presidential electors to meet and vote on the second Monday in January following appointment, state determinations of appointment controversies to be conclusive, rules for rejecting or counting votes from states with one or multiple returns based on lawful tribunals decided by Congress, and no recesses until vote counting is completed after the first joint meeting.