(VitalNews.org) – Republicans in Congress are demanding an eleven hour change for Nebraska’s presidential voting system in a way that could transform the electoral calculus and sway the race in Donald Trump’s favor.
Polls are showing that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are close nationally and in battleground states. The Senior GOP congressional members are trying to replace a system that splits allocation of its electoral college votes with a winner-takes-all distribution.
If they make this change, it would increase the number of electors allotted to Donald Trump for winning the Republican state, and it would raise the possibility that both Harris and Trump would end up with a tied amount of electoral votes.
South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, a close Trump ally, went to Nebraska to ask legislators to find the extra votes needed to revert its electoral college distribution procedure back to how it was before 1992.
The Nebraska Delegation’s letter said, “As members of Nebraska’s federal delegation in Congress, we are united in our support for apportioning all five of Nebraska’s electoral votes in presidential elections according to the winner of the whole state.”
Two-thirds of the Republican-led chamber is needed to change the system back to how it was, and only a little over thirty of the fifty people are thought to be in favor.
The polls seem to be getting closer, and Arizona is pushing harder because Harris is expected to get two-hundred and seventy of the electoral votes, the exact amount needed to win over the White House, just by getting swing states Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
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