Colorado Dem Governor Disempowers State Voters, Mandates State Electoral College Votes Go to Dem
How far will Democrats go to hijack elections and what sort of violations will they be allowed to get away with?
Gov. Jared Polis signed a law Friday that would allot the state’s electoral college votes to whichever candidate won the national popular vote. The Washington Post previously reported the law’s signing.
The state’s legislation would only take effect if enough other states sign on to secure the cumulative 270 electors needed to elect a president, and Colorado’s votes raise the current total to 181 electors. Most states have winner-take-all laws in place dictating that their electors go towards whichever candidate takes the state’s popular majority, while Maine and Nebraska opt to proportionally split their electors based on the vote.
The eleven other states that have signed on — California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state — as well as the District of Columbia and now Colorado, make up the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. New Mexico, which has five electoral votes, sent a bill to the governor’s desk to elect the president by popular vote and may soon join the group as well.
Colorado is a purple state tilting quite blue. But it is arguably a swing state.
And the bill disempowers Colorado, essentially allowing California and New York voters to override the will of local voters.
Colorado Democrats are willing and eager to disempower state voters demonstrating that they put Democrat interests over those of their own state.