Presidential electors in 50 states
and Washington, D.C., carried out one of the last formal steps in
the U.S. presidential election Monday, casting their ballots to
give President George W. Bush a second term.
Bush should gain 286 of the 538 available votes in the
Electoral College, the indirect system of choosing a president
under the Constitution. Democrat Senator
John Kerry of Massachusetts won 19 states and Washington, D.C.
that have 252 pledged electors. Kerry conceded on Nov. 3.
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By federal law, electors meet in their states on the Monday
following the second Wednesday of December. Their ballots are
then sent to Vice President Dick Cheney, who reads them before
both houses of Congress on Jan. 6.
Even in Ohio, where the popular vote count is being challenged,
the state’s 20 electors cast their ballots for Bush, Bloomberg News reports.
The inauguration for Bush and Cheney’s second four-year term
will take place Jan. 20.
Bloomberg News
