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Colorado electors plan to challenge state law in bid to derail Donald Trump's victory
The Colorado Springs Gazette ^ | December 3, 2016 | Rachel Riley and The Associated Press

Posted on 12/03/2016 8:00:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Four of Colorado's nine Electoral College electors plan to challenge a state law that would prevent a long-shot bid to keep President-elect Donald Trump out of the White House.

Robert Nemanich, of Colorado Springs, said Saturday he and three other electors intend to sue Colorado's governor, attorney general, secretary of state and state Democratic Party chairman claiming state law requiring electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates "who received the highest number of votes at the preceding general election in this state," is unconstitutional....

(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: co2016; colorado; election; electoralcollege; trump; trumptransition; washington; wod
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That'd be Fort Sumter as far as I'm concerned.
1 posted on 12/03/2016 8:00:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Huh ??? Didn’t Hillary win CO ?


2 posted on 12/03/2016 8:02:08 PM PST by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like some electors need a visit.

From some Bandidos.


3 posted on 12/03/2016 8:02:46 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s the point exactly? CO went for Clinton.


4 posted on 12/03/2016 8:02:51 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More moonbat liberals. These idiots have to vote for Hillary, so how they think they are derailing Trump seems to escape them.


5 posted on 12/03/2016 8:03:00 PM PST by usafa92 (Trump 2016 - Destroying the GOPe while Making America Great Again!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why is this even news? They should all vote for Hillary. These people shouldn’t be electors if they don’t know who they are supposed to vote for.


6 posted on 12/03/2016 8:03:28 PM PST by cmt21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These people are idiots. States control how electors are selected.


7 posted on 12/03/2016 8:03:42 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They want to vote for another Republican hoping Trump doesn’t get 270


8 posted on 12/03/2016 8:04:12 PM PST by Raycpa
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And of course these “Colorado” electors are Hillary electors who can’t possibly “derail Trump”.. Pretty dishonest headline.


9 posted on 12/03/2016 8:04:13 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Baldwin77

these idiots never learn


10 posted on 12/03/2016 8:04:48 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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isn’t weed legal in Colorado? that would explain a lot...


11 posted on 12/03/2016 8:04:59 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Already been ruled on. RAY v. BLAIR.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/343/214

Stop wasting our time with BS NeverTrumps/Globalists. Its President Trump, get used to it.


12 posted on 12/03/2016 8:05:07 PM PST by Mechanicos (Trump-Pence is for America First.)
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So 4 of the Electors pledged to Clinton are challenging their election as Electors?

Savage is right about liberalism being a mental disorder.

13 posted on 12/03/2016 8:05:14 PM PST by AU72
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To: Raycpa

Clinton won CO. Shouldn’t they vote for her?


14 posted on 12/03/2016 8:05:58 PM PST by cmt21
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To: Baldwin77

I suspect the point is that if you challenge the law as (federally) unconstitutional and win ... like gay marriage ... it becomes law of the land. So maybe they hope they can appeal this all the way up to SCOTUS.


15 posted on 12/03/2016 8:06:17 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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Yeah, CO went to Hitlery, so these fools are just that...FOOLS.

Second, and more importantly, the leftists in the US are gonna keep pushing until they get a reaction for which they didn't bargain.

16 posted on 12/03/2016 8:06:53 PM PST by SIDENET (My next tagline will be so awesome.)
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To: Baldwin77

Not only are they trying to flip Trump electors and block Wisconsin and Michigan, but some Hillary electors are also planning on voting for someone like Romney to give the US House a NeverTrump person to vote for.


17 posted on 12/03/2016 8:06:57 PM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Raycpa

How would that work exactly?


18 posted on 12/03/2016 8:07:27 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are really that stupid. Savage is right. It’s a mental disorder.


19 posted on 12/03/2016 8:07:37 PM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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He does realize that the law has to be amended before the election to count as legitimate law, doesn't he?

No ex post facto laws.

Or is this guy that ignorant?

20 posted on 12/03/2016 8:08:53 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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