A new Colorado law will give the state's electoral college votes to the national popular vote winner in the next presidential election — but there's a catch
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 trend comes as Americans have shown greater support in recent years for a more democratic presidential election process, without the translational risks of the electoral college.
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.
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