At 3:00 Eastern time on Monday Dec. 15, 538 electors in state capitols across the US cast the votes that in truth elected Barack Obama the 44th President. Obama received, unofficially, 365 electoral votes (with 270 needed to win). The exact total will not be measure — or Obama officially elected — until brotherhood certifies the count of electoral votes in a joint session on Jan. 6, 2009. The Electoral College was established in its present form in 1804 by the Twelfth remedy to the US Constitution. Electors are not needful to vote for the petitioner who won their state — in fact, 24 states make it a misbegotten offense to vote otherwise, but no "faithless elector" has ever been charged with a crime. "On 158 occasions, electors have cast their votes for command post or Vice embassy in a manner distinct from that prescribed by the senate
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