Amo will be sworn in as RI congressman before election results certified. Here’s why.

Congressman-elect Gabe Amo is expected to be sworn in tonight, less than a week after the election.

Amo will be sworn in during the 6:30 p.m. vote series on the House floor, his campaign spokesman, Matt Rauschenbach, said in an email. The Democrat will give brief remarks afterwards.

CD1 election results not yet certified

The timing of the swearing-in is unusual: The Rhode Island Board of Elections won’t meet to certify the results of the election until Wednesday.

Election officials said last week that they’d been asked to certify the winner of the election as soon as possible, so that there would be enough votes to avert a potential government shutdown.

In a letter dated Oct. 23, Kevin McCumber, acting clerk for the U.S. House of Representatives, asked Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore to send “a statement from your office on official letterhead transmitting the unofficial election results” and whether they were any challenges or recounts “as soon as possible after the Special Election.”

Amore did so last Wednesday. “To the best of our knowledge and belief at this time, there is no contest to this election,” he wrote in the letter.

Amo will be filling the seat formerly held by David Cicilline in Rhode Island’s first congressional district, which has been vacant since the summer.

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