An effort to prevent Donald Trump from losing a potentially crucial electoral vote from Nebraska appears dead.
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Gov. Jim Pillen said that a proposal to alter how Nebraska would allocate its five electoral votes does not have the two-thirds majority it would need to pass and take effect in time. Pillen issued a statement the day after a Republican state senatorOnly Nebraska and Maine split their electoral votes, awarding two each to the winner of the statewide vote and one to the winner in each congressional district.
One scenario is that Harris wins three of the seven battleground states, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and Trump prevails in the others, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina. Lawmakers are out of session and not scheduled to reconvene until January, so Pillen would have had to call them into a special session to make a change.
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