Colorado’s governor is whoever wins the most votes. The same is true of Colorado’s other state offices.
Greg Lopez, mayor of Parker, Colorado, doesn’t like that. He’s running for governor, and it means Denver (pop. 715,522) can outvote Parker (58,512).
So Lopez, a Republican, “is proposing that the state eliminate the popular vote in statewide races and … adopt a quasi-electoral college system that … would give dramatically more power to less populated, more Republican areas.” (See story here.)
If his scheme had been in place in 2018, Gov. Jared Polis wouldn’t have won. Polis (D) got 1,348,888 votes to Walker Stapleton’s (R) 1,080,801 votes. Under Lopez’s system, Stapleton would get 283 electoral votes and Polis would get 181 electoral votes — and Stapleton would’ve won despite getting only 43% of the popular vote to Polis’s 53%.
“Lopez’s weighting system would have given the 2,013 combined voters in Hinsdale, Kiowa and Mineral counties a total of 33 electoral votes, more than double the 14 electoral votes of Denver, Arapahoe and Adams counties’ combined 761,873 voters,” Raw Story says.
That’s unconstitutional, unfair, and violates the civil rights of Denver voters. Lopez and people like him don’t care.