KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: In West Virginia, the electoral voting process has just wrapped up at the state Capitol in Charleston. That's where our Bob Franken is. He joins us live with the details. Hi, Bob.</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi Kyra. What did Steve call it a couple of minutes ago? A possible switcharoo somewhere? Well, there was no switcharoo here, although I believe the term is the "faithless electors." And West Virginia is one of those states that allows somebody to, on his or her own, switch the vote even though the voters who elected these electors have put them in to vote for another candidate. The last one that occurred was here in West Virginia in 1988. But not today. They followed the script, the five electors did, signed their certificates of vote for George W. Bush first, and then for Richard Cheney, the state of West Virginia electing its first Republican non-incumbent president since 1928. Now, there was quite a bit of concern with all the pressure that these electors were getting -- somebody said something like 6,000 e- mails and countless phone calls -- urging somebody to switch a vote for Al Gore. But it did not happen. They had -- how shall I say it? -- some enforcement procedures in place to see to it that the Republican electors in fact voted the Republican ticket. So what we now have is a state that the Democrats, many people believe, took for granted; only five electoral votes. It had been, for the most part, Democratic over the decades, but the Republicans were able to come in and snatch these five electoral votes today. As the governor, Cecil Underwood, pointed out, had this state gone the other way, in fact, Al Gore would have been elected the president. But it was not to be. So for the Republicans today, both in West Virginia and across the nation, West Virginia once again is almost heaven -- Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: All right, Bob Franken, thank you so much.
The Electors Vote: West Virginia Casts 5 Votes For George W. Bush