Two Colorado presidential electors have filed a new federal lawsuit against Secretary of State Wayne Williams, saying that threats he made leading up to last year’s dramatic Electoral College vote violated their constitutional rights. The lawsuit was announced Tuesday by Equal Citizens, an advocacy group, on behalf of two Democratic electors, Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich, who argue that the …
President-elect Donald Trump may have won the election but he still has one final hurdle to clear. His actual victory doesn’t come until the Electoral College votes on December 19. According to Colorado state law, Colorado’s electors are required to vote for whoever won the popular vote in the state, but two electors have filed a lawsuit in hopes of changing that rule.
The DFL is asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to strip Trump’s name from ballots for the Nov. 8 election, potentially denying Republicans a chance to vote for their presidential nominee, because of the way the Republican Party filed for ballot access. That’s an action opponents and legal observers call extreme, drastic and undemocratic. Meanwhile, the Minnesota secretary of state’s office told …