In this Dec. 19, 2016, file photo, Colorado elector Micheal Baca, second from left, talks with legal counsel after he was removed from the panel for voting for a different candidate than the one who won the popular vote, during the Electoral College vote at the Capitol in Denver. Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams, front right, looks on. On Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Williams violated the Constitution when he removed Baca from the panel.
(File photo by Brennan Linsley, Associated Press)
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Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca.
Ms Baca believes that the Electoral College, which has chosen US presidents since George Washington, “has absolutely no reason to be.”
This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her state’s rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way - also unsuccessful - to circumvent the outcome.
But unlike Donald Trump, whose raft of legal filings and maneouvers has failed to change the result of this year’s election, Ms Baca is a Democrat. And she even serves as one of the body’s 538 electors while all but calling for the group to be abolished.