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Nebraska may change its electoral system at the last second to help Trump win | Stephen Marche

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Nebraska has a split electoral college vote, and for the past few elections the city of Omaha has reliably voted Democrat .

The other four electoral districts vote solidly Republican .

As it stands, the most direct path to a Kamala Harris victory is by way of Wisconsin , Michigan and Pennsylvania .

With those three states, she would receive exactly 270 electoral college seats, the number she needs to win.

The electoral college was the product of an 18th-century agrarian society whose Capitol sat a hundred miles from virgin forest.

The founders built their system to avoid exactly the kind of situation that the erasure of Omaha , Nebraska , would represent: the possibility of democracy in bad faith and by name only.

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