Electoral Votes to be Counted 1/4/13 instead of 1/6

Posted by By GeorgeM at 28 December, at 08 : 40 AM Print

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Maybe that’s because January 6 is a Sunday. You might want to look at a calendar before you start hallucinating dark conspiracies.

Jack Carter, 4 months ago Reply
- Normally, it would be the day AFTER.
  
  GeorgeM, 4 months ago Reply
From Attorney Mario Apuzzo:
George,
The date for Congress in joint session to count the electoral votes is fixed by law. Under 3 U.S.C. § 15, that date is January 6. Because January
6, 2013 falls on a Sunday, Congress passed a Joint Resolution on December 18, 2012, moving the joint session date to January 4, 2013. See H.J. Res. 122, 112th Cong. (2012).

Normally, when a legal deadline date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, the time is extended to the next business day. That would have made the Joint Session meeting date Monday, January 7, 2013. I’m sure that Congress felt that when it comes to Obama’s eligibility to be President, sooner was better than later and so made the date Friday, January 4, 2013, rather than Monday, January 7, 2013.
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Mario

GeorgeM, 4 months ago Reply
George, That pretty much says it.

Billy Norton, 4 months ago Reply
Whenever Congress has voted to move the date for counting the electoral votes, it has always moved it forward rather than back. In 1989 (and other years) it was moved to January 4, a Wednesday. In 1973 it was moved to January 3.

Bill, 4 months ago Reply