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16 May 2019, 1:02 pm
Maine currently is the only state other than Nebraska to split its electoral votes between the two candidates rather than employing the winner-takes-all approach of most other states. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 9:42 am
She was a Democratic elector in 2020, too.David Bright, Maine: he attempted to cast a vote for Bernie Sanders for president in 2016, but, upon a re-vote in Maine, cast a vote for Mrs. [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 12:25 pm
Two states—Maine and Nebraska—assign one elector to the party whose ticket is the plurality winner in each of the state’s congressional districts, while awarding the two remaining electors to the party whose ticket wins a plurality statewide. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 11:04 am
In Maine and Nebraska, the system is slightly different—two electors are awarded on this basis, and the remaining electors (two in Maine, three in Nebraska) are awarded to the winner of each congressional district.In the 2020 presidential election, this system yielded 306 pledged electors for Joe Biden and 232 for Donald Trump.But there are many ways that electors might be awarded. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 1:50 pm
Two states, Nebraska and Maine, divide their electoral votes proportionately, with the state winner receiving two electors and the winner of each congressional district receiving one elector.A third option is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, discussed by its founders here. [read post]
20 Nov 2016, 1:51 pm
The winning Presidential candidate’s slate of potential Electors are appointed as the state’s Electors—except in Nebraska and Maine, which have proportional distribution of the Electors. [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 12:00 am
I believe this is the first time, at least in modern times, that either Maine or Nebraska (the only two states that currently have a system for splitting electoral votes) will split its electoral votes. [read post]
25 Mar 2024, 11:30 pm
Other Member States’ Courts have also ruled on their respective electoral thresholds. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 11:49 am
Only a few states, such as Maine, use different rules, where, in Maine, for instance, each Congressional district elects its own electoral college member. [read post]
8 Nov 2008, 12:27 am
Nebraska and Maine are the only two states in the nation that split its electoral votes based on congressional district. [read post]
1 Sep 2017, 12:42 pm
However, in assessing the potential impact of electoral hacking on the state’s democracy, there is an argument for a more comprehensive response. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 11:56 am
ABC News has looked into it:The Maine Secretary of State's office confirmed that Bright is one of the state's four electors and he plans to change his vote. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 3:06 pm
Electoral College members are nominated in each state, often by the political parties. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 9:01 am
This results because most states' popular votes are not predicted to be close in a given election - and all states other than Nebraska and Maine award their electoral votes in a "winner-take-all" fashion, awarding no votes to the state-wide popular vote loser. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
Or reformers pursue state-by-state adoption of Ranked Choice Voting for the appointment of a state’s presidential electors, as Maine has done, recognizing that this reform will leave unaffected the Electoral College’s state-based structure. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 6:54 am
This year’s convening of the Electoral College in fifty states and the District of Columbia should be relatively uneventful. [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 4:52 pm
A candidate must receive an absolute majority of the electoral votes cast in order to be duly elected president.All but two states -Maine and Nebraska- utilize a winner-takes-all method of pledging their respective electors' votes: the candidate that wins the popular vote in that state gets all of the electoral votes available in the state. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 10:18 am
David Boies is leading an effort to challenge the winner-take-all method that most states use when awarding presidential electors. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I briefly assess the major constitutional and statutory voting rights claims asserted in the complaint.The Constitutional Voting Inequality ClaimsAs to the Constitution, the plaintiffs’ main argument is that by using WTA, Texas has “rendered meaningless the vote of every . . . [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 10:00 am
The National Popular Vote Act Solution Even without a constitutional amendment, the states have the power to fix the main problem of the Electoral College. [read post]
