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N.Y. Election Law § 12-104: Electoral college; meeting and organization

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  1. Election Law
  2. Article 12. Presidential Electors and Federal Elected Officers
  3. Title 1. Presidential and Vice Presidential Electors

§ 12-104. Electoral college; meeting and organization. The electors

shall convene at the state capitol upon notice from, and at a place

fixed by the secretary of state on the first Tuesday after the second

Wednesday in December next following their election. Those of them who

shall be assembled at twelve o'clock noon of that day shall immediately

at that hour fill, by majority vote, all vacancies in the electoral

college occasioned by the death, refusal to serve, or neglect to attend

at that hour, of any elector, or any vacancies occasioned by an equal

number votes having been given for two or more candidates. The electoral

college being thus completed, they shall then choose a president and one

or more secretaries from their own body.

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