“Colorado’s presidential electors do not have to vote for the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote, the powerful 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled, a decision that could have major ramifications for future elections,” the Colorado Sun reports.

“A three-judge panel on the federal appellate court ruled 2-1 against the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office in a case dating back to the 2016 presidential election, when three of the state’s nine presidential electors — the state’s Electoral College voice — tried to vote for candidates other than Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won handily in the state.”

Related: Faithless electors are a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub told CNN that “there is no evidence of rampant voter fraud in 2016 or really in any previous election,” despite President Trump’s claims.

Weintraub stressed such statements from the president can cause “people to lose faith” and “to question the results.”

Raffi Piliero: “Elections – and how votes are counted – should be eminently predictable in a democracy. Yet we’ve designed a system where 538 people can overrule the other 327,000,000.”

Washington Post: “The effort, expected to cost between $4 million and $5 million, will target 20 states, most of them battlegrounds in the Midwest and Southeast, and three states with gubernatorial elections this year: Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi.”

The New York Times reports Abrams will not run for president in 2020.

Raffi Piliero: “Instead of discussing the relative merits or demerits of the Electoral College, I’ll pose a different question: For those who want to change the system, what next?”

“At least eight states are on course to not use any form of paper ballots or machines with paper records during the 2020 elections, a report published Tuesday by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice found,” The Hill reports.

The states: Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey. 

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) told the HuffPost that she supports legislation that would require President Trump and other presidential candidates to release their tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot.

“President Trump sued California Tuesday challenging a state law that requires candidates for president to disclose income tax returns before they can appear on the state’s primary ballot,” CNN reports.

“The federal lawsuit from Trump and his campaign is the latest move by the President to resist efforts to turn over his tax returns.”

“Using data released by the federal Election Assistance Commission in June, a new Brennan Center analysis has found that between 2016 and 2018, counties with a history of voter discrimination have continued purging people from the rolls at much higher rates than other counties.”

“At least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018, similar to the number we saw between 2014 and 2016, but considerably higher than we saw between 2006 and 2008.”

“The man at the center of an election fraud investigation in a 2018 North Carolina congressional race faced new indictments Tuesday along with multiple other individuals,” CNN reports.

“Leslie McCrae Dowless, a political operative in Bladen County who was connected to questionable absentee ballot activity, was indicted by a Wake County grand jury on two counts of felony obstruction of justice, perjury, solicitation to commit perjury, conspiracy to obstruct justice and possession of absentee ballot.”