The return of winner take all
Gov. Jim Pillen has asked me to reintroduce my “Winner Take All” bill in this year’s legislative session. The new bill, LB 003, seeks to return Nebraska to the way 48 other states count their electoral votes for president and the way Nebraska did it before 1992.
The electoral college, which the founders designed as the mechanism for electing the president, has a total of 538 votes. Thus in order…