[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 127, 113th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

 
JOINT SESSION--ELECTORAL VOTE COUNT
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Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),
That provide the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the
House of Representatives on Thursday, the 4th day of January 2013, at 1
o'clock post meridian, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution
and laws relating to the election of President and Vice President of the
United States, and the President of the Senate shall be their Presiding
Officer; that two tellers shall be previously appointed by the President
of the Senate on the part of the Senate and two by the Speaker on the
part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they
are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and
papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which
certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in
the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter ``A'';
and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing
of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear
from said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and
counted in the manner and according to the rules by law provided, the
result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate,
who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement
shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected
President and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a
list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses.

Agreed to January 3, 2013.