[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 6 (Saturday, January 20, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H68]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




CORRECTED PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT SESSION OF SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 2001 
                              AT PAGE H44

  A notation concerning the District of Columbia was inadvertently 
omitted from the Congressional Record of Saturday, January 6, 2001.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Gentlemen and gentlewomen of the Congress, the 
certificates of all the States have now been opened and read, and the 
tellers will make final ascertainment of the result and deliver the 
same to the President of the Senate.
  The tellers delivered to the President of the Senate the following 
statement of results:

 Joint Session of Congress for the Counting of the Electoral Votes for 
  President and Vice President of the United States: Official Tally, 
                            January 6, 2001

  The undersigned, Christopher J. Dodd and Mitch McConnell, tellers on 
the part of the Senate, William M. Thomas and Chaka Fattah, tellers on 
the part of the House of Representatives, report the following as the 
result of the ascertainment and counting of the electoral vote for 
President and Vice President of the United States for the term 
beginning on the twentieth day of January, two thousand and one.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      For President   For Vice President
                                   -------------------------------------
   Electoral Votes of Each State     George             Dick      Joe
                                    W. Bush  Al Gore   Cheney  Lieberman
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alabama--9........................        9  .......        9  .........
Alaska--3.........................        3  .......        3  .........
Arizona--8........................        8  .......        8  .........
Arkansas--6.......................        6  .......        6  .........
California--54....................  .......       54  .......        54
Colorado--8.......................        8  .......        8  .........
Connecticut--8....................  .......        8  .......         8
Delaware--3.......................  .......        3  .......         3
District of Columbia--3...........  .......        2  .......         2
Florida--25.......................       25  .......       25  .........
Georgia--13.......................       13  .......       13  .........
Hawaii--4.........................  .......        4  .......         4
Idaho--4..........................        4  .......        4  .........
Illinois--22......................  .......       22  .......        22
Indiana--12.......................       12  .......       12  .........
Iowa--7...........................  .......        7  .......         7
Kansas--6.........................        6  .......        6  .........
Kentucky--8.......................        8  .......        8  .........
Louisiana--9......................        9  .......        9  .........
Maine--4..........................  .......        4  .......         4
Maryland--10......................  .......       10  .......        10
Massachusetts--12.................  .......       12  .......        12
Michigan--18......................  .......       18  .......        18
Minnesota--10.....................  .......       10  .......        10
Mississippi--7....................        7  .......        7  .........
Missouri--11......................       11  .......       11  .........
Montana--3........................        3  .......        3  .........
Nebraska--5.......................        5  .......        5  .........
Nevada--4.........................        4  .......        4  .........
New Hampshire--4..................        4  .......        4  .........
New Jersey--15....................  .......       15  .......        15
New Mexico--5.....................  .......        5  .......         5
New York--33......................  .......       33  .......        33
North Carolina--14................       14  .......       14  .........
North Dakota--3...................        3  .......        3  .........
Ohio--21..........................       21  .......       21  .........
Oklahoma--8.......................        8  .......        8  .........
Oregon--7.........................  .......        7  .......         7
Pennsylvania--23..................  .......       23  .......        23
Rhode Island--4...................  .......        4  .......         4
South Carolina--8.................        8  .......        8  .........
South Dakota--3...................        3  .......        3  .........
Tennessee--11.....................       11  .......       11  .........
Texas--32.........................       32  .......       32  .........
Utah--5...........................        5  .......        5  .........
Vermont--3........................  .......        3  .......         3
Virginia--13......................       13  .......       13  .........
Washington--11....................  .......       11  .......        11
West Virginia--5..................        5  .......        5  .........
Wisconsin--11.....................  .......       11  .......        11
Wyoming--3........................        3  .......        3  .........
                                   -------------------------------------
    Total--538....................      271      266      271       266
------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Note: One elector from the District of Columbia cast 2 blank ballots.
     Christopher J. Dodd,
     Mitch McConnell,
       Tellers on the part of the Senate.
     William M. Thomas,
     Chaka Fattah,
       Tellers on the part of the House of Representatives.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The state of the vote for President of the United 
States, as delivered to the President of the Senate, is as follows:
  The whole number of electors appointed to vote for President of the 
United States is 538, of which a majority is 270.
  George W. Bush, of the State of Texas, has received for President of 
the United States 271 votes.
  Al Gore, of the State of Tennessee, has received 266 votes.
  The state of the vote for Vice President of the United States, as 
delivered to the President of the Senate, is as follows:
  The whole number of the electors appointed to vote for Vice President 
of the United States is 538, of which a majority is 270.
  Dick Cheney, of the State of Wyoming, has received for Vice President 
of the United States 271 votes.
  Joe Lieberman, of the State of Connecticut, has received 266 votes.
  This announcement on the state of the vote by the President of the 
Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected 
President and Vice President of the United States, each for the term 
beginning on the 20th of January 2001, and shall be entered, together 
with a list of the votes, on the Journals of the Senate and the House 
of Representatives.

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