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Robert Tait in Washington

Republican bid to change Nebraska voting rules to help Trump fails

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The Nebraska state senator Mike McDonnell of Omaha in the legislative chamber in Lincoln in 2019. Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP

A Republican attempt to change the electoral system in Nebraska to give Donald Trump a possible advantage in the event of a tied presidential election has been rebuffed after a state legislator refused to back the plan.

Mike McDonnell, a former Democrat who crossed to the Republican party this year, said he would not vote to change the midwestern state’s distribution of electors to the same winner-takes-all process that operates in most of the US.

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