With eyes on November, Colorado Republicans keep voting against certifying elections

Colorado is part of a nationwide trend in which local Republican officials vote against certifying elections.

Experts see the votes as testing the waters for discrediting the results of this year ’s presidential election.

Colorado 's elections are certified by local canvass boards with three members.

Experts say the votes are a strategy to slow things down or provide a path for changing election outcomes.

There have been at least three dozen times nationwide that local officials have delayed certifying or voted against certifying the results of an election.

The states where this has happened are Arizona , Colorado , Georgia , Michigan , Nevada , New Mexico , North Carolina , and Pennsylvania .

The people fighting certification rarely make up a majority, meaning the elections are usually still certified.

Trump allies in 2020 wanted legislatures to choose who won the state’s electors in lieu of the voters.

Congress passed a law in 2022 making it clearer that the vice president cannot overturn an election result.

The Supreme Court limited the power of state legislatures in federal elections.