UP AT 6:00.
JACQUELINE QUYNH COVERING
COLORADO FIRST.
THANK YOU.
IF YOU ARE REPRESENTING
YOUR STATE IN A PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION, YOU HAVE TO BACK THE
WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
IT IS BASICALLY THE RULING
TODAY BY THE SUPREME COURT.
OUR ALAN GIONET REPORTS ON A
RULING THAT FINDS ELECTORS TO
VOTE FOR THE POPULAR VOTE
WINNER.
Reporter: IT WAS HILLARY
CLINTON'S WIN IN COLORADO IN
2016 EARNING THE GREATER SHARE
OF THE POPULAR VOTE OVER DONALD
TRUMP.
BUT THEN MICHAEL BACCA, ONE OF
COLORADO'S ELECTORS WHERE THE
PRESIDENT IS FORMALLY PICKED
INSTEAD BACKED JOHN KASICH OF
OHIO.
MAKING BACA ONE OF TEN
FAITHLESS ELECTORS IN THE
NATION.
HIS BALLOT WAS VOIDED AND HE
WAS REPLACED, THEN HE SUED.
IT HAS BEEN AN EXTRAORDINARY
THREE AND A HALF YEARS SINCE I
VOTED.
Reporter: BUT THE SUPREME
COURT RULED UNANIMOUSLY HE'S
NOT ENTITLED TO SWITCH AND THE
COURT SAYS COLORADO AND OTHER
STATES CAN UNBISH FAITHLESSBE
-- PUNISH ELECTORS.
JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS DURING
ARGUMENTS NOTED ELECTORS COULD
VOTE FOR ANYONE.
COLORADO'S ATTORNEY GENERAL
PHIL WISER ARGUED THAT THE
STATE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PUNISH
FAITHLESS ELECTORS.
THIS CASE SAYS ELECTORS WHO
THOUGHT THEY HAD INDEPENDENT
DISCRETIONS ARE NOW TOLD THEY
DON'T.
IF THE STATE WANTS TO FINE THEM
TO THE VOTE OF THE PEOPLE IN
THAT STATE, THE STATE HAS THE
AUTHORITY TO DO THAT, AND CAN
REMOVE THEM IF THEY REFUSE TO
ACT.
Reporter: ATTORNEY GENERAL
SAYS WITH THE CASE WAS DECIDED
BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION, WE
