On September 24, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen said he will not call a special session of the legislature to alter the way Nebraska elects presidential electors. Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that let each U.S. House district elect their own elector. The Governor wanted to covert Nebraska to the system used by the other 48 states, but he said there isn’t enough support in the legislature to make the change this year. Although the idea of switching to the system used by 48 states has a majority in the legislature, he predicts there would be a filibuster against the bill and so it couldn’t pass.
RICHARD WINGER,
In your view how would changing to the system in the other 48 states be effected by the 14th Amendment related to male votes over 21 years of age related to representives in Congress if the 14th Amendment needs to be used to cover the lack of Voters rights.
The Governor shouldn’t be the decider of voting outcome in the legislature. Put it up and let them approve or disapprove. The Nebraska voters can decide the elected representatives fate next election if they don’t like their legislature vote. What if Biden canceled the general election because there isn’t enough electoral votes to get Harris elected. Voting will resume when she can win.
I’m trying to understand the Seidenberg question/statement/whatever it is. Anyone have any clue as to what it means? Or maybe there’s nothing to understand?
Hewhaw, the reason it’s called special election is because it’s not regularly scheduled. It’s up to the governor whether to call it. The governor made a reasonable decision that there’s no emergency requiring a special session. That was a good call. Your hypothetical scenario is not analogous since the election itself is regularly scheduled and not an emergency election which it is up to Biden to call. Luckily, we don’t have to wait for a time when Kamala Harris can win – she’ll win by a lot at the regularly scheduled election 42 days from now and will be sworn in as our 47th President on January 20.
There is an emergency vote that calls for a special emergency election . Vote Trump in and get Biden and Harris out of the White House before they wreak America further..
GET READY FOR 270-268 YELLING AND SCREAMING OR WORSE
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ABOLISH THE MINORITY RULE EC
Jim Pillock is a moron. And if he is correct, then so are the majority of the Nebraska legislatures. The congressional district method is far superior to the winner-takes-all system. It is the other 48 states that need to follow the example of Maine and Nebraska, not vice versa.
Actually,there are currently 6 States that have only 3 electoral votes and a single Congressional District–and thus are by that fact winner take all. 42 States have two or more Congressional Districts and are winner take all, and then there are Nebraska and Maine with the Congressional Districts each having one vote for President. It would be far better if the 42 States with more than one Congressional District and with winner take all would adopt the Nebraska and Maine method of voting in Presidential races. This was advocated by Senator Karl Mundt of South Dakota back in the 1960s. If this was done we would not have the Democratic Party candidate for President mostly ignoring and writing off States like Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, Utah, and others, while the Republican Party candidate for President is mostly ignoring and writing off States like California, Illinois, New York, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and others. A presidential campaign devoted to just 7 or 8 or 9 States leaves much to be desired.
Muddle, you have it backwards. We need Harris in the White House to keep Trump from wrecking America. Thankfully, that’s exactly what we are going to get.
Yelling and screaming: get ready for a huge landslide win for Kamala and the Coach!
I agree about abolishing the EC though!
Nebraska should keep the district thing, and Maine should get rid of it.
1/2 OR LESS VOTES [PLURALITY] X BARE MAJORITY OF ELECTION AREAS = 1/4 OR LESS CONTROL = MINORITY RULE
IN EC —– ABOUT 28-30 PCT MINORITY RULE — WITH ABOUT 26 PCT ACTUAL MINORITY RULE
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2016-2020 USA MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER SYSTEMS SUMMARY AUG 2024
BASED ON 2020 PREZ RESULTS
1. 22.8 PCT OF VOTERS CAN ELECT 220 OF 435 USA REPS
2. 8.0 PCT OF VOTERS CAN ELECT 50 OF 100 USA SENATORS
3. 21.7 PCT OF VOTERS CAN ELECT A PREZ — 272 OF 538 EC VOTES.
4. IN 2016 30.0 PCT OF VOTERS ELECTED TRUMP – 304 ECV – MIN 26.2 PCT – 270 ECV
5. IN 2020 33.7 PCT OF VOTERS ELECTED BIDEN – 306 ECV – MIN 29.1 PCT – 270 ECV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
PCTS WILL CHANGE A BIT WITH NOV 2024 GERRYMANDER ELECTION RESULTS.
A BARE MAJORITY OF EACH HOUSE OF EACH STATE LEGISLATURE IS ELECTED BY ABOUT 28-30 PCT OF STATE VOTERS – 1/2 VOTES X 1/2 GERRYMANDER AREAS= 1/4 CONTROL
MUCH WORSE EXTREMIST PRIMARY MATH IN ALL GERRYMANDER SYSTEMS.
Yelling and screaming,
Your math is way off.
Retard on retard crime!
WITH 538 EC GERRYMANDER DISTRICTS —
EVEN A BIT LESS THAN 25 PCT MINORITY RULE FOR USA PREZ/VP
SMALL POP STATES OVER-REPRESENTED — IN BOTH USA H REPS AND SENATE
MAJOR MIRACLE THAT LARGER POP STATES AND SMALLER POP ARE BOTH DIVIDED — BETWEEN COMMIES AND FASCISTS
Nebraska starts with N so it should Not keep the district thing.
The N actually means it Needs district electors. Maine’s M means it Must get rid of that. We need democratic laws which help the Democratic Party win.
MUST NOT ??? ADD/SUBTRACT / MULTIPLY / DIVIDE ???
The bot is not computing into English correctly.
@JL,
The Maine/Nebraska system of using congressional districts plus two elected statewide is ahistorical. When Maryland elected presidential electors by district, they would elect 10 electors from 10 electoral districts, while electing 8 representatives from 8 congressional districts. A state such as Alaska or Wyoming could be divided into three electoral districts.
When the Maine electoral vote by district was first proposed, there would be four electoral districts. Another legislator suggested that two electors be chosen by congressional district and two at large, and that was what was adopted. Nebraska then copied the Maine system.
After the 1800 election, a constitutional amendment was proposed that provided for direct election of presidential electors from electoral districts. Congress would delineate the electoral districts.
There is no sane way to elect a chief executive over millions of federal employees and hundreds of millions of federal citizens with a federal government that spends trillions annually and defines the units it spends on its own faith and credit and ability to extort taxpayers. It can’t be done.