EVIDENCE LEDGER
& SOURCE VAULT

Date: December 2020–January 2021

Originator: National Archives and Records Administration

Establishes: The official Electoral College result recorded for the 2020 presidential election: Joseph R. Biden Jr. 306 electoral votes and Donald J. Trump 232.

Does not establish: This record alone does not resolve every allegation or legal argument raised about election administration; it documents the official electoral certificates and result.

Provenance: National Archives Electoral College records.

Date: January 6–7, 2021

Originator: United States Congress / Government Publishing Office

Establishes: The official congressional record of proceedings surrounding the counting of electoral votes, including objections, debate, votes, recess and resumption.

Does not establish: Statements by individual members are arguments entered into the record; their inclusion does not itself make each assertion an adjudicated fact.

Date: January 6, 2021

Originator: United States Senate / Congress

Establishes: An objection to Arizona's electoral votes was considered and the Senate rejected the objection 93–6.

Limitation: The vote establishes the Senate's disposition of the objection; it is not a judicial ruling on every underlying factual allegation.

Date: January 6, 2021

Originator: United States House of Representatives / Congress

Establishes: The House rejected the objection to Arizona's electoral votes 303–121.

Limitation: The vote records the House's constitutional action on the objection and should not be described as a court adjudication.

Date: 2023

Originator: U.S. Government Accountability Office

Establishes: GAO reported that all 10 federal agencies it reviewed identified potential threats before January 6 and found shortcomings in how some threat information was processed or shared.

Does not establish: This later oversight finding should not be represented as proof that every agency possessed the same information, assessed it identically, or predicted the precise events that occurred.

Date: 2022

Originator: U.S. Government Accountability Office

Establishes: GAO documented examples of open-source information available before January 6 that indicated potential violence and reviewed how agencies handled such information.

Limitation: Availability of an online statement does not by itself establish that a particular official saw it, credited it, or could have acted on it without additional context.

Date: December 22, 2022

Originator: U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack / Government Publishing Office

Establishes: The official archive contains House Report 117-663 and supporting materials released by the Select Committee, including transcripts, court documents, videos and exhibits. The report states the Committee's findings and recommendations based on its investigation.

Does not establish: Committee findings and criminal referrals are congressional investigative conclusions, not criminal convictions or judicial findings of guilt.

Provenance: Government Publishing Office January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection.

Date: June 8, 2021

Originator: U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Rules Committee

Establishes: The bipartisan Senate review documented breakdowns in intelligence handling, security preparation, interagency coordination and the response to the Capitol attack, and issued recommendations for reform.

Does not establish: The report is an oversight investigation and does not substitute for judicial adjudication of individual criminal responsibility.

Date: Continuing federal case record

Originator: U.S. Department of Justice

Establishes: Justice Department status materials document federal arrests, charges, pleas, trial outcomes and sentences arising from January 6 prosecutions as reported by DOJ.

Does not establish: A criminal charge is an allegation and is not evidence of guilt by itself. Individual outcomes must be identified separately as pleas, convictions, acquittals, dismissals or other dispositions.

Date: June 28, 2024

Originator: Supreme Court of the United States

Establishes: The Supreme Court narrowed the circumstances in which 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) applies, requiring the charged conduct to involve records, documents, objects or other things used in an official proceeding, or an attempt to do so.

Later effect: The ruling required review of affected obstruction counts. It did not erase unrelated charges, convictions or conduct in January 6 cases.