Ascertainment

Current federal law (Title 3, chapter 1, section 6 of the United States Code) requires the states to report the November popular vote numbers (the “canvas”) in what is called a “Certificate of Ascertainment.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote 2010

Current federal law (Title 3, chapter 1, section 6 of the United States Code) requires the states to report the November popular vote numbers (the “canvas”) in what is called a “Certificate of Ascertainment.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote 2010

The electors record their votes on six “Certificates of Vote,” which are paired with the six remaining original “Certificates of Ascertainment.”

Electoral College to Make It Official - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

The electors record their votes on six “Certificates of Vote,” which are paired with the six remaining original “Certificates of Ascertainment.”

Electoral College to Make It Official - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

This process became known as the "Ascertainment of Community Needs" and the job of carrying out this mandate was left in the hands of the station managers.

Tim Giago: An Indigenous Perspective on the Fairness Doctrine 2009

For examples of how to conduct scientific inquiry, Hartley turns to mathematical methods, and he includes an extensive discussion of these in proposition 87 of volume 1 of the Observations, which is titled: “To deduce Rules for the Ascertainment of Truth, and Advancement of Knowledge, from the Mathematical Methods of considering Quantity.”

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

Ascertainment of the use (of a word, of a proposition), however, is not given to any sort of constructive theory building, as in the Tractatus.

Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009

LOPEZ: We have here what is called the Certificate of Ascertainment of the Presidential Electors.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: Mr. Bush Goes to Washington - December 17, 2000 2000

Ascertainment of the extent to which the above preconditions are either being met already or could be satisfied through appropriate measures is part of the "biogas innovation cycle" outlined in table

9. Social acceptance and dissemination 1989

The historical attitude is this: Ascertainment of facts, interpretation of actions, investigation of motives, but regarding all events as "portions of human life."

A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation Calvin Olin Davis