{"id":798165,"date":"2019-08-01T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=369379"},"modified":"2019-08-01T13:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T19:02:47","slug":"colorados-popular-vote-law-could-face-repeal-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorados-popular-vote-law-could-face-repeal-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s popular vote law could face repeal in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/election-slideshow-atd-110817-9.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/election-slideshow-atd-110817-9.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/election-slideshow-atd-110817-9-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Voting stickers at the Pitkin County Elections Office in Aspen.<\/strong><br \/><em>Anna Stonehouse \/ The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 A campaign to undo a law that would pledge Colorado\u2019s presidential electoral votes to the national popular vote winner says it\u2019s collected more than enough signatures needed to put the law before voters next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Coloradans Vote campaign said Wednesday it will turn in more than 227,000 signatures to the secretary of state. It needs more than 124,000 valid voter signatures to put the question on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The group is challenging a Democrat-sponsored law signed by Gov. Jared Polis that could commit Colorado to pooling its electoral votes with other states for the winner of the national popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>The current compact movement is nearly 20 years old. But it gained steam after Democrat Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential loss to Donald Trump despite her winning the national vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorados-popular-vote-law-could-face-repeal-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting stickers at the Pitkin County Elections Office in Aspen.Anna Stonehouse \/ The Aspen Times DENVER \u2014 A campaign to undo a law that would pledge Colorado\u2019s presidential electoral votes to the national popular vote winner says it\u2019s collected more than enough signatures needed to put the law before voters next year. The Coloradans Vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 16:18:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798172,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798165\/revisions\/798172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}