Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich were Colorado Democratic presidential electors last year who filed a federal lawsuit to win the freedom to vote in the electoral college for someone other than Hillary Clinton. They did end up voting for Hillary Clinton, after watching the Secretary of State expel a third Democratic presidential elector, Michael Baca, who cast a vote for Bernie Sanders. Because Michael Baca was expelled, his vote was not counted, and he was replaced by an elector who did vote for Clinton.
On August 2, Polly Baca and Nemanich voluntarily dismissed their lawsuit, which had still been pending in U.S. District Court. On August 10, they filed a new case, which is similar to the old one. Here is the new complaint. The new case is Baca v Williams, 1:17cv-1937.
One more reason to abolish the super time bomb electoral college – as if the 1860 e.c. math was not evil enough — about 750,000 DEAD in 1861-1865.
Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of the USA.
PR and AppV.
Why did they dismiss their previous lawsuit? Are they judge shopping?
Oh, no. They get the same judge. They had been trying to file an amended complaint, but that hadn’t been approved yet, so I guess they thought it was simpler to just start over. All they lose is the filing fee for the court.
I saw that Larry Lessig is their attorney. Has that always been the case?
Larry Lessig is a new supplemental attorney, but the case still has its original attorney.