Bill to return Nebraska to winner-take-all Electoral College method comes up short
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Martha Stoddard
LINCOLN — Republican lawmakers were frustrated once again in their long-standing fight to return Nebraska to a winner-take-all system for choosing presidential electors.
Legislative Bill 10 fell one vote short of the 33 needed to overcome a final-round filibuster Tuesday. The vote was 32-17.
The failure means that Nebraska remains as one of only two states allowing for a potential split of its Electoral College votes. The other is Maine.
Returning to a winner-take-all system has been a priority for the state GOP since Nebraska abandoned that method in 1991.
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Our 2008 vote for Obama counted and helped him get the 1 EC vote from Omaha. After the 2010 census Bellevue was gerrymandered out of the Omaha and put in the Lincoln District.
I have not posted much today. I cracked a tooth at dinner last night. I'm on pain meds until I get a temp crown in the morning.
I was already fighting a bad cold. I won't be on much Thursday either.
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