In spite of assurances that Nebraska offers the "gold standard" in election security, state lawmakers spent more than three hours Thursday questioning whether more could be done to shore up

As the Trump campaign pressures Nebraska Republicans for a change that would net him an electoral vote, state law in Maine would block Democrats from making a counter-move.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) voiced his support for Nebraska Republican’s effort to flip the state’s way of distributing Electoral College votes to a winner-take-all electoral system — a

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Republicans are stepping up their efforts to change Nebraska's electoral vote process to winner-take-all -- a move that would benefit former President Donald Trump in an expected close November election in which a single vote could make a key difference in the Electoral College.

Republican members of Congress from Nebraska in a Wednesday letter called on their state to apportion all of its five electoral votes to the popular vote winner of the presidential election in the

Nebraska's split-vote electoral system, which the Democrat-leaning Maine also uses, came into effect in 1991, with the state facing multiple attempts to repeal it since. The current proposal was introduced in 2023 by Senator Loren Lippincott.

Republican officials in Nebraska are eyeing what is effectively an electoral vote heist in the campaign’s final weeks. The consequences could be dramatic.

The Survey USA poll also suggested that undecided voters, who accounted for about 20% of survey respondents, may be friendlier to Osborn than to Fischer. In the poll's crosstabs, 20% of those undecided voters supported President Biden in 2020, while only 10% supported former President Donald Trump.

Trump's allies want the state to move to a winner-take-all system for its Electoral College votes to make it harder for Harris to win.

The South Carolina senator wants the governor to call a special session to put forward legislation that would make Nebraska a winner-take-all state in the Electoral College.