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WASHINGTON -- Colorado is one of 15 states that has filed an official petition to secede from the United States of America and create its own government.

The citizen-driven protest comes in the wake of President Obama being re-elected Tuesday. Colorado citizens are protesting despite the state voting for Obama by more than 100,000 votes over challenger Mitt Romney.

Obama received 51 percent of the swing state's vote, while Romney got only 46 percent.

The petition needs 25,000 signatures in the first month of protest for the Obama Administration to consider it. Colorado made its protest Saturday, which means it has until Dec. 10 to gather the 25,000 required signatures for consideration.

Colorado had 7,123 signatures as of 4 p.m. MT Monday.

The title of the petition is "Peacefully grant the State of Colorado to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government."  The language of the petition is as follows:

As the founding fathers of the United States of America made clear in the Declaration of Independence in 1776:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

"...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..."

Only Texas has gathered enough signatures for consideration. The Lone Star State had 32,448 signatures at 4 p.m.

Louisiana, North Dakota, Montana, Indiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Oregon and New York have all filed petitions with the White House as well and all have at least 2,500 signatures.

Of the 15 states, Colorado is one of five in which the majority voted for President Obama in the 2012 election.