State:
Colorado

Capital:
Denver

Population:
~5,759,000

Admitted to the Union:
August 1, 1876

Nickname(s):
The Centennial State ⓘ

Capitol Building:
200 E Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80203

Government Division for Elections:
Colorado Secretary of State
1700 Broadway, Suite 200
Denver CO 80290

Phone: 303-894-2200
Fax: 303-869-4861

E-mail:
elections@sos.state.co.us

Number of Electors:
9

Districts:
7 ⓘ

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State:
Colorado

Capital:
Denver

Population:
~5,759,000

Admitted to the Union:
August 1, 1876

Nickname(s):
The Centennial State ⓘ

Capitol Building:
200 E Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80203

Government Division for Elections:
Colorado Secretary of State
1700 Broadway, Suite 200
Denver CO 80290

Phone: 303-894-2200
Fax: 303-869-4861

E-mail:
elections@sos.state.co.us

Number of Electors:
9

Districts:
7 ⓘ

The truth about Colorado when voting in a general election for President of the United States:

Any convention of delegates of a political party or any committee authorized by resolution of the convention may nominate presidential electors. All nominations for vacancies for presidential electors made by the convention or a committee authorized by the convention shall be certified by affidavit of the presiding officer and secretary of the convention or committee. Political parties must file with the secretary of state a certificate of nomination for presidential electors.

The presidential electors shall convene at the capital of the state, in the office of the governor at the capitol building, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in the first December following their election at the hour of 12 noon and take the oath required by law for presidential electors. If any vacancy occurs in the office of a presidential elector because of death, refusal to act, absence, or other cause, the presidential electors present shall immediately proceed to fill the vacancy in the electoral college. When all vacancies have been filled, the presidential electors shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by the constitution and laws of the United States. The vote for president and vice president shall be taken by open ballot. Each presidential elector shall vote for the presidential candidate and, by separate ballot, vice-presidential candidate who received the highest number of votes at the preceding general election in this state.

Colorado provides a question and answer format to explain things:

Source: https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Candidates/FAQs/electoralCollege.html

Q1. What is the Electoral College?
A1. It is a group of 538 people, chosen by the states and the District of Columbia, that are responsible for electing the President and Vice President of the United States. When you cast your vote for a presidential/vice-presidential ticket, you are actually casting a vote for the slate of electors in your state that were chosen to represent that ticket in the Electoral College.

Q2. How are electors chosen?
A2. Each state determines how electors are chosen. In most states, political parties determine their electors.
States are allocated electors based on their number of Congressional legislators. For example, Colorado is entitled to nine electors because it has two members of the U.S. Senate and seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The District of Columbia is entitled to 3 electors by virtue of the 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  In order to be elected, a presidential/vice-presidential ticket must receive at least 270 Electoral College votes, which amounts to a majority of the votes cast by the 538 electors.

Q3. How does Colorado nominate its members of the Electoral College?
A3.
• Each Colorado political party nominates delegates to its national convention during the state party conventions. During these assemblies, the parties also nominate their Electoral College electors.
• Unaffiliated presidential candidates may access the ballot in Colorado either by petition or by submitting a statement of intent and a $1,000 filing fee. In either case, each unaffiliated candidate must also submit a list of presidential elector nominees when the candidate files with the Secretary of State.
• Write-in presidential candidates may also access the ballot in Colorado. Each write-in candidate must submit a list of presidential elector nominees when the candidate files with the Secretary of State.

Q4. When do Colorado’s presidential electors meet?
A4. Following the presidential election, Colorado’s nine designated ielectors meet in the Governor’s office to cast their votes for president and vice president. Under Colorado law, each presidential elector must vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in Colorado’s General Election.

What happens to these electoral votes?  Each state has a certain number of electoral votes associated with their state.  There are a total of five-hundred and thirty-eight (538) electoral votes to be exact, and only a total of two-hundred and seventy (270) of these electoral votes are required to determine the person who will become President of the United States.

Knowing the number of electors associated with each of the States, it is mathematically possible to have only eleven (11) states determine who will become the President of the United States.

The following eleven states add up to the two-hundred and seventy (270) electoral votes needed to determine who becomes President of the United States:

California (55 electoral votes)
Texas (38 electoral votes)
New York (29 electoral votes)
Florida (29 electoral votes)
Illinois (20 electoral votes)
Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes)
Ohio (18 electoral votes)
Georgia (16 electoral votes)
Michigan (16 electoral votes)
North Carolina (15 electoral votes)
New Jersey (14 electoral votes)

This next fact may disappoint those of you who reside and vote in Colorado.

If these eleven (11) states end up having their electoral votes casted for the same candidate, the remaining thirty-nine (39) states would not matter at all.  So… that vote you casted in the general election in November as a citizen… what was the purpose of your vote?  The answer: NOTHING (when these eleven states have an electoral outcome as such) !!!

The time is NOW to understand that our country does not have a voting process in place whereby every citizen who wants to cast a vote is able to cast a vote and to then have his or her vote be accurately counted towards choosing the person who will become the next President of the United States.