100K sign on to put National Popular Vote Compact on ballot

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition for a ballot measure that would assign how Colorado’s electoral votes are counted.

The group, Coloradans Vote, has been gathering signatures for several months, after Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in March. The new law assigns the state’s nine electoral votes towards the winner of the national popular vote for president — not to the largest vote-getter in Colorado. The compact would only go into effect if enough states also sign the compact, reaching the threshold of 270 electoral votes. Currently, that number amounts to 189 electoral votes, per National Popular Vote numbers.

Coloradans Vote has until August 1st to reach 124,634 signatures in order for the issue to be placed on the November 2020 ballot, according to Don Wilson, of Coloradans Vote.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact gained momentum especially after the 2016 election, when Donald Trump garnered 304 electoral votes while Hillary Clinton got 2,864,903 more popular votes.

Many have seen the issue as highly controversial, claiming the compact’s passage as unconstitutional. See previous article here.