Maine and Nebraska delegate their electoral votes using the congressional district method, unlike the 'winner-take-all' method used by 48 other states. This method allocates two electoral votes to the state's popular vote winner and awards each delegate to the winner in each congressional district.
Rather than use the “winner-take-all” method that 48 other states use, Maine and Nebraska delegate their electoral votes in a different way. The two states use the congressional district method .
The state was reliably Democratic as a whole until former President Donald Trump won the 2nd District. Trump won the district again in 2020 despite losing the state’s popular vote.with splitting the electoral vote, however, came much earlier in 1820 when the Pine Tree state seceded from Massachusetts. In 1828, the state switched back to the common “winner-take-all” method. A century and a half later, it reverted to the congressional district method.
“States are definitely allowed to change their rules for allocating electors as long as they do before the election before any voting has taken place,” Burden said. “It does a disservice to voters and campaigns to be tinkering with the rules as we get closer to Election Day.” “It does seem problematic to be tinkering with something so important as we get closer to Election Day,” Burden said.
“Some people have pointed out this year that if Biden were to hold on to Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, those three blue wall states, but he loses the other two states that flipped last time, Georgia and Arizona, there could be a 269-269 tie depending on what happens with that one stray elector in Nebraska,” Burden said.
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