Winner Take All Bill Fails to Advance at the Nebraska Legislature

The Electoral College winner-take-all bill is apparently dead for this Nebraska legislative session. Supporters failed to get the 33 votes to invoke cloture and end debate, effectively killing the bill. The bill was introduced by District 34 senator Loren Lippincott of Central City who took to the mic several times during four hours of debate on Tuesday. 

District 37 senator Stan Clouse of Kearney and District 41 senator  Dan McKeon of Ravenna also spoke in favor. District 33 senator Dan Lonowski of Hastings supported the measure. District 35 senator Dan Quick of Grand Island voted against.the bill 

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Gov. Pillen Offers Statement on Legislature's Filibuster of Winner-Take-All 
LINCOLN, NE -- Governor Jim Pillen today offered the following statement regarding the Legislature’s failure to end a filibuster to reach a fair up-or-down vote on LB3, which would restore Winner-Take-All to Nebraska’s electoral college vote allocation and unify our voice in presidential elections:

“I am deeply disappointed that a minority of the Legislature defeated the will of the majority of their colleagues and, more importantly, the majority of Nebraskans by filibustering Winner-Take-All. WTA is supported by a substantial majority of the people’s representatives and should have received a fair up-or-down vote. Nebraskans expect and deserve principled, straightforward consistency from their elected leaders, and I’m disappointed that the Legislature fell short of those expectations with its failure today.

I continue to believe that it is critical to pass WTA to strengthen Nebraska’s voice in presidential elections. There have been many efforts to fix it in the last 30 years, and I will continue to work with allies in the Legislature to get this done in time for the 2028 election.”