STATE OF

CERTIFICATE OF ASCERTAINMENT OF APPOINTMENT FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENIT OF THE

TO: ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES

WHEREAS, 3 U.S.C. 6 requires that the following credentials of electors for the State of Alaska for President and Vice President of the United States be transmitted to your office; and

WHEREAS, Alaska Statute 15.30.010 provides that electors for President and Vice President of the United States are selected by election at the General Election in presidential years; and

I WHEREAS, under Alaska Statute 15.30.050 a vote marked for the candidate for President and Vice President is deemed and counted as a vote for the presidential electors of the party; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Alaska Statute 15.30.020, following are three candidates for electors fOIi each party with a candidate for President and Vice President on the 2012 General Election ballot

Kristie D. Babcock Kathleen R. MiI!Ier Christopher L. Nelson

ALASKA DEMOORATIC PARTY

Carolyn Covington Frances Ann Degnan Victor Fischer

ALASKA LIBERTARIAN PARTY

Michael Chambers Charles Green Stephen Merrill

GREEN PARTY

WiUiam D. Bartee Judith H. Moss Thomas L. Macchia WHEREAS, pursuant to the Act of June 25,1948, 62 Stat. 672, as amended, 3 U.S.C. 6, , Governor, and Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, do solemnly certify that in the General Election of November 6, 2012, the votes cast for President and Vice President, respectively, were 164,676 votes cast for and Paul Ryan of the Alaska Republican Party; 122,640 votes cast for and of the Alaska Democratk Party; 7,392 votes cast for and James P. Gray of the ; 2,917 votes cast for Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala of the Green Party.

THEREFORE, accordingly, the candidates for electors received votes as follows:

Vote

ALASKA REPUBLICAN PARTY Kristie D. Babcock 164,676 Kathleen R. Miller 164,676 Christopher L. Nelson 164,676

ALASKA DEMOCRATIC PARTY Carolyn Covington 122,640 Frances Ann Degnan 122,640 Victor Fischer 122,640 ALASKA LIBERTARIAN PARTY Michael Chambers 7,392 Chartes Green 7,392 Stephen Merrill 7,392

GREEN PARTY

William D. Bartee 2,917 Judith H. Moss 2,917 Thomas L. Macchia 2,917 THAT the following persons have been finally ascertained to be the electors of the President and Vice President of the United States for the State of Alaska:

Kristie D. Babcock Kathleen R. Miner Christopher L. Nelson

SIGNED AND SEALED in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, this 11 th day of December, in the year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve. ~ {LlgJ Sean Parnell Governor State of Alaska

Mead Treadwell Lieutenant Governor State of Alaska