Posted on 04/27/2024 3:33:02 AM PDT by Zman
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine House Majority Leader Mo Terry said Friday the Legislature would be “compelled” to consider a special session if Nebraska Republicans switch their state to a winner-take-all system to help former President Donald Trump win in November.
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Why I no longer live in my home state.
when does this wind up in the Supreme court anyway?
Can't read the rest of this 'news', it's behind a paywall. Can you add to the excerpt by way of comment?
“help former President Donald Trump win”
You mean be like the other 49 states? Or help Xiden lose by more electoral votes to a non-commie?
“Compelled”?! “Will” is the word
Maine has RCV for a reason...
Sorry about the paywall; here’s the full article:
The remarks from Terry, a Democrat from Gorham, in a Friday morning email to “friends and colleagues” are not a guarantee of any action coming from Maine lawmakers, who adjourned last week. Members in both parties said this month they like Maine’s existing system for now that splits Electoral College votes between the winner in its two congressional districts along with giving the statewide winner two at-large electors.
But Terry’s comments are a reminder of how quickly things could change if Republicans who control Nebraska’s legislative body and governor’s office follow through on a winner-take-all change ahead of Trump’s November rematch with President Joe Biden.
“If Nebraska’s Republican Governor and Republican-controlled Legislature were to change their electoral system this late in the cycle in order to unfairly award Donald Trump an additional electoral vote, I think the Maine Legislature would be compelled to act in order to restore fairness to our country’s electoral system,” Terry wrote. “It is my hope and the hope of my colleagues in Maine that the Nebraska Republican Party decides not to make this desperate and ill-fated attempt to sway the 2024 election.”
Maine and Nebraska may be more than 1,000 miles away from each other, but their connection is they are the only states that split Electoral College votes by congressional district, with Nebraska having three districts and five total votes to Maine’s four electoral votes.
Maine led the nation in adopting the system under a 1969 law that Nebraska then followed in 1991 in an effort to receive more attention from White House contenders. Earlier in April, however, Nebraska’s Republican governor came out in support of a bill to change the state to a winner-take-all system for presidential elections, hours after conservative activist Charlie Kirk urged Nebraskans to “stop pointlessly giving strength to their political enemies.”
Trump praised Gov. Jim Pillen’s comments. Biden earned one electoral vote from an Omaha-area district in 2020. Kirk and conservatives have been clear in sharing they believe a switch to a winner-take-all system would likely help Trump sweep red Nebraska and possibly lead to a tie in the Electoral College results that the incoming U.S. House of Representatives’ state delegations would have to settle.
Still, various Republicans who make up a 33-member majority in Nebraska’s 49-member unicameral Legislature have not warmed to the idea, and the bill to change the state’s system did not have the votes to advance before adjournment this month. But Pillen said he would support holding a special session once there is enough support to pass the measure.
In Maine, the Democratic-controlled Legislature would need a special session to consider any changes to the presidential elector system, Terry confirmed to the Bangor Daily News. Support for doing so is uncertain, as other Democratic leaders and Gov. Janet Mills have not commented on the matter. U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat who represents the 2nd District that Trump carried in 2016 and 2020, said this month Maine’s system “is fine the way it is now.”
But earlier in April, Mills let a proposal become law without her signature for Maine to join an interstate compact that would give each state’s electoral votes to the national popular vote winner once states accounting for at least 270 votes join it. Maine gives the compact 209 votes.
Terry alluded Friday to the competing arguments on whether Maine should not let conservatives in another state dictate its election system or should not give Trump an advantage.
“Voters in Maine and voters in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District value their independence,” Terry said, “but they also value fairness and playing by the rules.”
Thanks Zman. That sounds like Maine rats have a burr in their saddle. Both states can handle their elections however they see fit. Nebraska republicans should tell Maine rats to sit and spin.
Same here.. left 44 years ago.
I live in Maine. IF this really becomes our ‘law’, in a close election, like 2020, would we have standing to take other states to court making sure all their counted votes were legal citizens who voted only once?
Could we force the discounting of votes without chain of custody? Ballots cast by mules depositing in drop boxes which do not have working cameras? Unique names? Dead voters? Ffalse addresses? Algorithms (spiral, metronome, shingle, tartan)? Could we call into question signatures that do not match?
Because the popular vote determines the vote of our electors would we be able to demand an audit (not a recount) of each state?
I would love for this policy to open Pandora’s jar for the authentication of legal votes.
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Yes, what is Maine going to do about it? They just joined the communist Popular Vote cabal. What, are they going to give their votes to Joe just by decree now or what?
If Trump wins North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, but Biden wins Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, Biden will win the election with 270 votes.
Maine can do what it wants. There is no legal connection to whatever Nebraska does. This just leftwing ranting and chest thumping — by pygmies.
Okay, but which pygmy is the tallest?
So what. Each state decides how to allocate its electoral votes. Nebraska can go to winner takes all. So can Maine.
What the Dems in Maine are trying to do is to discourage Nebraska from making the change. Will it work?
This shows how fragile the “National Popular Vote” compact would be. A state could easily back out of the deal. Even after the election, under suspicions of vote fraud, a state legislature could decide to award its electoral votes to the other candidate.
So stupid of Maine (and other states) to give their votes to California.
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