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    A misleading message about Colorado and the national popular vote pact

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    The claim: Colorado law awards ‘all of our votes’ in 2024 to Trump

    A discussion article from November 6 (direct link, archive link) claims that Trump is credited with winning every vote in a state.

    “The law passed by Colorado Democrats gives all of our votes to Trump for winning the popular vote,” reads the image, which is a screenshot of the title of a blog post.

    The text of the Threads article continues in part: “It appears that, by law, everyone in Colorado voted for superstar President Donald Trump.”

    The image was also reposted hundreds of times in two days on X, formerly Twitter.

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    Our rating: False

    The law was not active in the 2024 elections, and the messaging misrepresents what would happen if it goes into effect. It will require Colorado and other participating states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. It does not give that candidate every individual vote cast in the state.

    Popular vote plan not yet in effect in Colorado

    THE National Interstate Compact for the Popular Vote is an agreement that could effectively phase out Electoral college system to elect a president, with participating states committing to allocate their electoral votes to the candidate with the most votes nationally. Colorado joined this movement in 2019, when Governor Jared Polis signed a measure passed through the A legislature controlled by Democratsand after a challenge, voters in 2020 approved A statewide referendum to keep it.

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    But this agreement has not yet entered into force, and it is not known whether it ever will. Under its terms, it will not be legally binding until it is adopted by more states.

    A total of 17 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws pledging to uphold the pact and have a total of 209 electoral votes. But these states agreed the plan would not go into effect until the total combined electoral votes of its participants reach at least 270 – the number needed to win the presidency.

    “This means that when states with 61 additional electoral votes pass the bill, we will elect the president by national popular vote,” said Patrick Rosenstielconsultant for National Popular Vote, a bipartisan nonprofit group that advocates for the measure.

    Five presidents have lost the popular vote but won the electionthe most recent being Trump in 2016 And George W. Bush in 2000. The other elections took place in the 19th century.

    Like the vast majority of states, Colorado allocates its electoral votes to statewide popular vote winner. In the 2024 race, that means his 10 electoral votes will go to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. On November 8, she unofficially received 55% of the statewide popular vote. Media calls for individual elections on election night declared her the state winner. The fact that Trump was able to win the national popular vote with a nearly 5 million votes lead on November 7 has no effect on this.

    A line in the captured item It reads in part that the law “commits every vote cast in the state to Trump, because he won the national popular vote.” This – along with the text of the Threads article and the title captured by the screenshot – is false. Even under the terms of the pact, the candidate who would win the national popular vote receive electoral votes from participating states – and not the votes cast by each individual voter.

    USA TODAY has previously debunked false claims that the Misspelling Trump’s name on Ohio ballot could invalidate the vote and a similar misspelling of his name on a Virginia ballot is evidence of fraud.

    USA TODAY contacted the group that publishes the blog, but its response did not include any evidence to support this claim. USA TODAY also reached out to the Threads user who shared the image but did not immediately receive a response. User X who shared it could not be contacted.

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