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Updated: The Electoral College plan to stop Trump explained

UPDATE: This story was originally published on Dec. 6, 2016. On Jan. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear the Colorado case that...

Colorado Sec. of State makes a deal with electoral college members...

Colorado’s GOP Secretary of State Wayne Williams and attorneys for three members of the 2016 Electoral College class who are suing him for voter...

Colorado Electoral College Lawsuit: A deal for nation’s highest court to...

Colorado’s GOP Secretary of State Wayne Williams and attorneys for three members of the 2016 Electoral College class who are suing him for voter...

‘Faithless elector’ to Colorado’s secretary of state: Now I’m suing you

The Colorado Electoral College member who went rogue by not casting an official ballot for Hillary Clinton in December is suing Secretary of State...

Colorado AG won’t prosecute the Hamilton Elector who voted for Kasich...

Colorado Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman will not prosecute Micheal Baca, a former member of the Electoral College who was stripped of his position...

GUEST POST: I was one of Colorado’s Hamilton Electors. What is...

NOTE: The Colorado Independent occasionally runs guest posts from government officials, local experts and concerned citizens on a variety of topics. These posts are...

Colorado secretary of state on 2016 Electoral College vote: ‘They’re investigating’

  “They’re investigating.” That’s what Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams said this week about the state attorney general’s office and a probe into what happened...

Why is a state investigator sniffing around Colorado’s Electoral College vote?

If you thought the saga of Colorado’s ‘Hamilton Electors’ ended with their much publicized December 2016 vote— think again. An investigator with the state attorney...

How Colorado resisted the siren of Donald Trump

Donald Trump won plenty of swing states in the November election, but Colorado wasn't one of them. It wasn’t close: Former Secretary of State...

Joe Biden will count the Electoral College votes now. Here’s what...

  At 1 p.m. eastern this afternoon, Congress will meet for a joint session to ratify the 2016 Electoral College votes and, likely, afford Donald...