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This Democratic bill could end Maine’s unique presidential election system (www.bangordailynews.com)

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Maine Democrats have put forward a proposal to no longer award the state’s Electoral College votes by congressional district if Republican-led Nebraska also switches to a winner-take-all system for presidential elections.

The bill from Rep. Adam Lee, D-Auburn, is the first piece of legislation here directly responding to the debate out of Nebraska, where Republicans initially tried but failed last year to advance a plan at the urging of President Donald Trump to switch to a winner-take-all system and leave Democratic-led Maine as the only state to award presidential electors by congressional district.

Nebraska lawmakers have revived that effort this year alongside a backup plan to ask voters to decide on making such a change by referendum. Trump and his allies have pushed the change to benefit Republican presidential candidates in Nebraska, which has not voted statewide for a Democratic candidate since 1964 but has given one of its five electoral votes to Democrats in recent elections from the Omaha-area 2nd Congressional District.

Maine became the first state under a 1969 law to award one Electoral College vote to the winner of each of its two congressional districts. The statewide winner gets the other two. Nebraska followed in 1991 in a bid to gain more campaign attention from presidential candidates.

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