Story highlights House Democrats tried to object to electoral votes from multiples states

Every House member who rose to object did so without a senator's signature

(CNN) Vice President Joe Biden presided over a joint session of Congress Friday, where members officially tallied electoral votes from the 2016 presidential election. President-elect Donald Trump's 304 electoral votes weren't counted without incident, however. During the course of the certification, House Democrats tried to object to electoral votes from multiples states, with Biden gaveling them down for failure to follow the rules.

Objections to the votes needed to be in writing and signed by both a member of the House and a member of the Senate. Every House member who rose to object did so without a senator's signature.

1:09 P.M. ET: Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts rose to object to the certificate from Alabama.

"The electors were not lawfully certified, especially given the confirmed and illegal activities engaged by the government of Russia," McGovern said.

Biden denied McGovern on the grounds that he didn't have a senator's signature on his written objection.

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