Colorado’s presidential electors threw away the state’s 10 votes on Tuesday as the Electoral College voted to confirm the results of the 2024 presidential election.
Colorado’s electors of course all cast their ballots as voted by 54% of the state’s voters — for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Yet once again, Donald Trump still won the official Electoral College votes cast by all electors with 312 votes compared to the Democrats’ 226 votes.
It must really suck to lose twice like that.
Colorado Politics reports that Gov. Polis and Secretary of State Jena Griswold oversaw the voting and certified the results without incident.
Interestingly, Polis used the occasion to promote an effort to eliminate the Electoral College and instead elect presidents by popular vote.
Polis has already signed into law Colorado’s agreement with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to support that process. But it cannot take effect until more states agree to go along with the gimmick.
Polis noted at yesterday’s mostly ceremonial affair:
“But until that happens, our electors here are bound to vote for the candidate that Colorado chose, and it happens to be the candidate I voted for, Kamala Harris.”
Actually, if the compact had been in effect and the Electoral College banished, Colorado’s 10 votes would not have gone to Harris because Donald Trump won the popular vote.