NEW: Republican candidate for Colorado Governor @LopezforCO proposes eliminating one-person one-vote for statewide elections. Lopez's plan for a state-level electoral college system would heavily favor Republicans. 9news.com/article/news/l… #cogov #copolitics
Lopez outlined his proposal to scrap the popular vote during a May 15 campaign stop in rural San Juan County. Lopez said counties should be allotted electoral votes based on turnout percentage, which would concentrate electoral power in small, rural counties.
The Lopez campaign did not answer questions about the details of his electoral college proposal. In 2018, @GovofCO Polis defeated @WalkerStapleton by 10%+. Our analysis indicates Lopez's plan would have created a +28 pt shift to Republicans. Stapleton would have won by 18%.
Lopez’s proposed vote 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.
DU Asst Professor of Political Science @poliscisara said Lopez's plan is unlikely to pass the statewide vote required to add it to the state constitution and would likely be ruled unconstitutional if it did pass.
Chatfield pointed to the 1964 case of Reynolds v Sims in which the Supreme Court struck down an Alabama plan to award a state Senate seat to each county. oyez.org/cases/1963/23
At the May 15 event, Lopez was clear the goal is to stop counting Coloradans' votes equally. “It’s not about one person, one vote,” Lopez said. “It’s about true representation.”
Lopez's win at the Colorado GOP state assembly has given him the top-line in the June 28 Republican primary against @heidiganahl. Each primary vote will be counted equally.
Lopez's campaign said he'd only answer questions about the electoral college if I did a second sit-down interview with him. Here's a thread of our extended sit-down interview earlier this month:
https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/1521638779831959552
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