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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="8-506" title_number="8" title_name="Elections" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Presidential Elections">
  <text>In submitting this State’s certificate of ascertainment as required by 3 U.S.C. § 5, the Governor shall certify the State’s presidential electors and state in the certificate that: </text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>the presidential electors will serve as presidential electors unless a vacancy occurs in the office of presidential elector before the end of the meeting at which presidential elector votes are cast, in which case a substitute presidential elector will fill the vacancy; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>if a substitute presidential elector is appointed to fill a vacancy, the Governor will submit an amended certificate of ascertainment stating the names on the final list of the presidential electors.</text>
  </level>
</section>
