This provides opportunities to manipulate elections by manipulating how each state selects it electors.
Here's the latest effort to do so.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) met with Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and around a dozen Republican state lawmakers Wednesday as Republicans seek a last-minute change to the way the Cornhusker state allocates its electoral votes, per multiple reports.
Why it matters: Nebraska and Maine are the only states that don't apportion votes on a winner-take-all basis. Vice President Kamala Harris looks likely to pick up the swing congressional district around Omaha — a single electoral vote which could prove decisive depending on how other swing states break down.Graham and other Republicans, including Pillen, want to change to a winner-take-all system before November.
That would virtually guarantee former President Trump all of the state's electoral votes.
If Harris were to win the Blue Wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but lose the Sun Belt swing states, the race would come down to which candidate won that single purple district in Nebraska.
Zoom in: Republicans have failed to gain sufficient support to overcome all the procedural hurdles to making the change, so Harris looks likely to take that vote — for now at least.
Driving the news: Nebraska's KOLN-TV first reported that Graham spoke to the lawmakers at the governor's mansion to try and encourage the final holdouts to rally behind the change.A spokesperson for Graham confirmed KOLN-TV's reporting but did not say whether he was acting as an envoy of the Trump campaign, as NBC reported. The Trump campaign did not provide comment.
Most of the state senators who were present at the meeting are ready to pass a winner-take-all bill, the report said.
Yes, but: Pillen said in a statement last week that he would not call a special session to reconsider the state's apportionment of votes without "clear and public indication" that 33 senators would vote to back the change.
