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The U.S. Code (3 U.S.C. §5) provides that if election
results are contested in any state, and ifthe state, prior to
election day, has enacted procedures to settle controversies
or contests over electors and electoral votes, and if these
procedures have been applied, and the results have been
determined six days before the electors’ meetings, then
these results are considered to be conclusive, and willapply
in the counting of the electoral votes. This date, known as
the “Safe Harbor” deadline, falls on December 8 in 2020.
The governor of any state where there was a contest, and in
which the contest was decided according to established
state procedures, is required (3 U.S.C. §6) to send a
certificate describing the form and manner by which the
determination was made to the Archivist as soon as
practicable.

Monday after the second Wednesday in December of
presidential election years is set (3 U.S.C. §7) as the date on
which the electors meet and vote. In 2020, the meeting is on
December 14. Electoral college delegations meet separately
in their respective states and the District of Columbia at
places designated by theirstate legislature.The electors
vote by paper ballot, casting one ballot for President and
one for Vice President. The electors count the results and
then sign six certificates, each of which containstwo lists,
one of which includesthe electoral votes for the President,
the other, electoral votes for the Vice President, each of
which includes the names of persons receiving votes and
the number of votes cast for them. These are known as
Certificates of the Vote, which the electors are required to
sign. They then pair the six Certificates of Ascertainment
provided by the state governors with the Certificates of the
Vote, and sign, seal, and certify them(3 U.S.C. §§8-10).
The sixcertificates are then distributed by registered mail
as follows: (1) one certificate to the President of the U.S.
Senate (the Vice President); (2)two certificates to the
secretary of state (or equivalent officer) of the statein
which the electors met; (3) two certificates to the Archivist;
and (4) one certificate to the judge of the U.S. district court
of the district in which the electors met (3 U.S.C. §11).

Certificates of electoral vote results must be delivered to above mentioned officers by the fourth Wednesday in
December, in 2020, by December 23 (3 U.S.C. §12).

If the certificates from any state have not been delivered by December 23, 2020, the President of the Senate, or in their absence the Archivist, is required to request the secretary of
state or equivalent officerin that state to send one of the
copies they hold to the President of the Senate by registered
mail (3 U.S.C. §12, 13). The Code also directs themto send
a messenger to the judge of the U.S. district court in the
state directing the judge to transmit the certificatethey hold
by “hand ...to the seat of government.”