Counting Electoral Votes: How the Constitution Empowers Congress—and Not the Vice President—to Resolve Electoral Disputes

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Counting Electoral Votes: How the Constitution Empowers Congress—and Not the Vice President—to Resolve Electoral Disputes

21 Nov 2022

Reviewing the rationale for the creation of the Vice Presidency, the text of the Constitution, the records of the early Congress, and the underlying logic of the Constitution, we conclude that there is no support for the view that the Vice President possesses unilateral constitution authority to resolve electoral vote disputes. Download the Working Paper
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Authors

Joseph M. Bessette, Gary J. Schmitt

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United States of America