All 10 Colorado presidential electors voted for Kamala Harris

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Brian Boatright administers the oath of office to Colorado’s 10 presidential electors, Dec. 17, 2024, at the Colorado Capitol. (Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)

Colorado’s 10 presidential electors gathered Tuesday at the state Capitol to vote for 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who won 54.2% of Colorado’s vote.

Republican President-elect Donald Trump won 43.2% of the vote. This was the first presidential election where Colorado received 10 electoral votes, after the state gained an eighth congressional seat following the 2020 census.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Secretary of State Jena Griswold, both Democrats, oversaw the meeting of electors, and Colorado Supreme Justice Brian Boatright administered the oath of office to the 10 statewide electors .

“​​This is part of our constitutional process that you are successfully executing here today to ensure that Colorado’s voice is part of this process that determines the next president of the United States,” Polis told voters.

Colorado’s presidential electors included Polly Baca of Denver, state Rep. Junie Joseph of Boulder, Cindy Orr of Grand Junction, Jarrod Munger of Fort Morgan, John Mikos of Monument, Kathryn Wallace of Arvada, Gil Reyes of Denver, Anita Lynch of Denver and Katherine. Khadija Haynes of Denver.

Griswold said Colorado ranked sixth in the nation in turnout in the 2024 election, with 79.5% of registered Colorado voters casting ballots. She said this election was the first time Colorado had more than 4 million active voters and more than 3.2 million were casting ballots.

“The votes cast today are the final votes that will be cast in this year’s election cycle,” Griswold said. “I’m proud that so many Coloradans made their voices heard in this important election.”

Colorado had the second highest turnout in the 2020 presidential election, with 76.4% of the population eligible to vote.

In 2020, Colorado voters approved the state’s membership in the National Interstate Compact for the Popular Votea coalition of states that have passed laws guaranteeing their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the most individual votes in lieu of the popular vote in a given state.

The agreement will not take effect until enough states have signed it to garner 270 electoral votes, a majority of the electoral college. By April, the National Popular Vote Compact had been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia, representing 209 electoral votes.

Polis said during the meeting that he supports moving to a direct popular vote for the election of president, noting that a group of U.S. Senate Democrats introduced a constitutional amendment Monday to abolish the Electoral College.

The electors took the oath, filled out two ballots – one for president and one for vice president – ​​and each signed six certificates of cast vote, the official record of the vote. Griswold also signed each of the six certificates, making the results official.

The certificates of votes cast were combined with the six verification certificates signed by Polis and Griswold following the certification of the general election results. One pair will be mailed to the United States Senate, two pairs to the Archivist of the United States, one pair to the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the final two pairs will be retained by the Secretary of State . desk.

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