Winner-take-all electoral vote bill likely dead in Nebraska Legislature

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — The decades-long partisan effort to return Nebraska to a “winner-take-all” system of awarding its electoral college votes for president has failed again.

Backers fell two votes short of ending a filibuster against the idea on Tuesday, which means that Legislative Bill 10 is likely dead for the year.

Since 1991, Nebraska has employed a system in which three of its presidential electoral votes are awarded based on the winner of the popular vote in each of its three congressional districts. The other two votes are awarded to the statewide winner.

Only once has the state split its electoral votes, in 2008, when Barack Obama actively campaigned in the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District and won its electoral vote.

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