Nebraska’s Republican governor is calling on state lawmakers to move forward with a “winner-take-all” system of awarding Electoral College votes.
FILE - Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address, Jan. 30, 2024, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Maine Republicans stand opposed to an effort that would ditch its split system and instead join a multi-state compact that would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote for president. Mills has not said whether shell sign the bill, a spokesperson said Wednesday, April 3.
In Nebraska, the system has confounded Republicans, who have been unable to force the state into a winner-take-all system since Barack Obama became the first presidential contender to shave off one of the state's five electoral votes in 2008. It happened again in 2020, when President Joe Biden.
Nebraska Republicans, too, have continuously faced hurdles in changing the current system, largely because Nebraska's unique one-chamber Legislature requires 33 votes to get any contested bill to passage. Republicans in the officially nonpartisan Legislature currently hold 32 seats.
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