Sep 20, 2024 - Politics & Policy
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The first 2024 presidential votes were cast today — but the rules of the road are still changing before our eyes.
🗓️ Early voting began today in Virginia, Minnesota and South Dakota.
- At the same time, local officials in critical battlegrounds are making or contemplating major changes that could slow vote-counting, and even change the candidates' paths to victory.
🌽 The intrigue: Former President Trump is pressuring Nebraska's legislature to change how it allocates its electoral votes — a move that most likely would give him one extra vote in the Electoral College.
- Nebraska parcels out its electoral votes to each of its congressional districts, one of which usually votes for Democrats. Some Republicans want to move to a winner-take-all system like almost all other states use.
- Shifting one electoral vote out of 538 toward Trump might not seem like a game-changer, but it would set up a not-unrealistic path to an Electoral College tie.
🍑 In Georgia, the state's GOP-controlled election board voted today to require hand-counting for all ballots after polls close on Election Day — a move that could delay the results in a critical swing state.
