Nebraska and Maine long ago discarded the Electoral College's winner-take-all approach to allow split ballots if a candidate wins the popular vote in a congressional district.

The Senate voted 18-16 against having Maine leave the multistate compact it joined last year pledging to give all of its electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote ...

In case you missed it, the scheme by special interest groups to replace the Electoral College with a so-called national ...

Maine's four electoral votes have been cast. Kamala Harris received three, and Donald Trump picked up one. "While the process ...

Any legislation passed in Maine takes 90 days to go into effect and Thursday marked 89 days until the electoral college is set to meet on Dec. 17 — meaning the Maine Legislature has already run ...

Interestingly, Maine didn’t exercise its ability to split its Electoral College votes until the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump received one vote from the 2nd Congressional District.

Maine, which elects four electoral college members, would take the current total to 193 out of the 270 needed. Troy Jackson, the Democrat senator who proposed the bill in Maine, ...

Two recent Maine based developments have once again put the state on the national stage of how the country elects its president. The first came last month when the legislature voted to join 16 ...

Maine should stay in Electoral College. Letter. Posted March 17, 2024. 1 min read . Font size + Gift article. You are able to gift 5 more articles this month.

How the 2nd District could affect the presidential election. The presidential candidates need 270 electoral college votes to win, and Maine will contribute four of them.

Most states are winner-take-all, but in Nebraska and Maine, ... The Electoral College was conceived of and adopted at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.