2004 Colorado Amendment 36

Amendment 36

November 2, 2004

Selection of Presidential Electors
Results
Choice
Votes %
Yes 696,770 34.78%
No 1,306,834 65.22%
Valid votes 2,003,604 93.38%
Invalid or blank votes 141,951 6.62%
Total votes 2,145,555 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 2,421,970 88.59%

Amendment 36 was an initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot in Colorado on November 2, 2004. It would have changed the way in which the state apportioned its electoral votes. Rather than assigning all of the state's electors to the candidate with a plurality of popular votes, under the amendment, Colorado would have assigned presidential electors proportionally to the statewide vote count, which would be a unique system (Nebraska and Maine assign electoral votes based on vote totals within each congressional district). The amendment did not pass.