Colorado has joined a list of states that plan to allocate their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the nationwide popular vote.
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed the measure into law Friday, uniting Colorado with 11 other states and the District of Columbia in the
The other states that have enacted the legislation are Rhode Island, Vermont, Hawaii, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, New Jersey, New York, Illinois and California. New Mexico, whose Senate approved the legislation earlier this week, could be the next state to join. Under the Constitution, states have the power to determine how they award their electoral votes in national elections. Most states have winner-take-all laws, which award all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes within the state. Two states, Maine and Nebraska, split their electoral votes to reflect the proportion of popular votes in their states.
Five of the nation's elected presidents have taken office without winning the national popular vote, including Donald Trump in 2016. Electoral college losses can be narrow: If John F. Kerry had 60,000 additional votes in Ohio in 2004, he would have won the election, even though President George W. Bush was 3 million votes ahead in the popular vote.
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