{"id":60235,"date":"2016-12-13T19:48:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T23:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60235"},"modified":"2016-12-13T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T23:53:46","slug":"60235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60235","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge: Colo. Electors Must Vote With State&#8217;s Popular Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_60236\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/65cfc73b-3c27-4e07-a89c-cab2a843ac2a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60236\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60236\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/65cfc73b-3c27-4e07-a89c-cab2a843ac2a.jpg\" alt=\" (Mark Makela\/Getty Images)\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/65cfc73b-3c27-4e07-a89c-cab2a843ac2a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/65cfc73b-3c27-4e07-a89c-cab2a843ac2a-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mark Makela\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By Greg Richter<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge ruled Monday that two Colorado electors will not be allowed to vote differently than the state&#8217;s popular vote in the December 19 Electoral College tallying.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Wiley Daniel said that if he granted the motion it &#8220;would undermine&#8221; the electoral process since Colorado state law requires its nine electors to vote for the presidential\/vice presidential team that won the Colorado popular vote, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/local-news\/federal-judge-blocks-motion-by-colorado-electors-to-upend-state-rules-in-hopes-of-not-electing-trump\">denverchannel.com reports.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel said the plaintiffs, Robert Nemanich and Polly Baca, should instead seek to change the law through the legislative process if they don&#8217;t agree with how Colorado runs the process. He called the lawsuit a &#8220;political stunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nemanich and Baca are part of an effort to have electors who are not satisfied with Republican Donald Trump&#8217;s election vote for Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado&#8217;s electoral votes went to Democrat Hillary Clinton, but Democrats and Republicans are part of the last-ditch effort to deny Trump the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Most states do not allow electors to vote against the popular vote of their state, a requirement the group argues is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/colorado-electors-must-vote-popular-vote\/2016\/12\/12\/id\/763564\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/colorado-electors-must-vote-popular-vote\/2016\/12\/12\/id\/763564\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}