# Fake Slates of Electors from Seven States **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 14, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-slates-of-electors-from-seven-states/957800 "2022-01-14T18:50:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-slates-of-electors-from-seven-states/957800/15 "2022-01-14T22:00:37Z")
Here you go: > [@Questions about those alt-Republican electoral slates .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-those-alt-republican-electoral-slates/928066/9): > > The legislation that governs how electoral votes will be counted in Congress is the [Electoral Count Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Act). It is long and complex, but to boil it down to the parts relevant to your question: The Vice President (who chairs the joint session) is required to open the certificate of attainment and any document purporting to be a certificate of attainment for each state. The question has been asked whether this means that I can mail in a “certificate of attainment” for Lyndon LaRouche scribbled on… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-slates-of-electors-from-seven-states/957800)._