3 U.S.C. § 6 : US Code - Section 6: Credentials of electors; transmission to Archivist of the United States and to Congress; public inspection

Search 3 U.S.C. § 6 : US Code - Section 6: Credentials of electors; transmission to Archivist of the United States and to Congress; public inspection

It shall be the duty of the executive of each State, as soon as
practicable after the conclusion of the appointment of the electors
in such State by the final ascertainment, under and in pursuance of
the laws of such State providing for such ascertainment, to
communicate by registered mail under the seal of the State to the
Archivist of the United States a certificate of such ascertainment
of the electors appointed, setting forth the names of such electors
and the canvass or other ascertainment under the laws of such State
of the number of votes given or cast for each person for whose
appointment any and all votes have been given or cast; and it shall
also thereupon be the duty of the executive of each State to
deliver to the electors of such State, on or before the day on
which they are required by section 7 of this title to meet, six
duplicate-originals of the same certificate under the seal of the
State; and if there shall have been any final determination in a
State in the manner provided for by law of a controversy or contest
concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such
State, it shall be the duty of the executive of such State, as soon
as practicable after such determination, to communicate under the
seal of the State to the Archivist of the United States a
certificate of such determination in form and manner as the same
shall have been made; and the certificate or certificates so
received by the Archivist of the United States shall be preserved
by him for one year and shall be a part of the public records of
his office and shall be open to public inspection; and the
Archivist of the United States at the first meeting of Congress
thereafter shall transmit to the two Houses of Congress copies in
full of each and every such certificate so received at the National
Archives and Records Administration.