citing an opinion by Attorney General Mike Hilgers. That opinion, which Evnen had requested, deemed as unconstitutional a law passed this year by the Legislature immediately restoring the voting rights of people who have completed the terms ...
Republicans in the GOP-dominated state of Nebraska face yet another likely defeat on a bill to reverse the state’s unusual method of splitting its presidential electoral votes by congressional district Sen. Merv Riepe, a Republican in Nebraska's...
becoming the seventh state to do so. The measure championed by the state’s Republican elections chief was in response to an effort to expand noncitizen voting in one small Ohio village, as well as to efforts cropping up in larger cities, such asNew Yorkand...
Nebraska historicallyvotes Republicanin presidential elections. Since 1986, Nebraskans have elected four congresspeople from theDemocratic Party. Since 1978, only three governors have been affiliated with the Democratic Party. NebraskaEconomy Agricultureis Nebraska’s most important and largest industry, contr...
State Sen. Loren Lippincott presented a bill Thursday to the Legislature’s government committee that would give the Nebraska State Patrol $200,000 to hire “an ethical hacker.” The hacker would spend his or her days trying to break into the state’s computer network, as well as...
He said he’s also upset that lawmakers advanced a Republican-backed measure Tuesday to reinstate the winner-take-all system in presidential elections. Because Nebraska’s Legislature lacks formal party leadership, other senators have little choice but to listen silently as Chambers dominates the ...
(it is unique in the United States), with 49 members elected on a nonpartisan basis for terms of four years. The state elects three representatives and two senators to the U.S. Congress and has five electoral votes in presidential elections. Republicans have held the governorship since 1998...
State Sen. Julie Slama, a Republican in the single-chamber, officially nonpartisan Legislature, slammed Pillen in a social media post as “an entitled millionaire.” She also dismissed his plan to shift a proposed 50% decrease in property taxes to a wide-ranging ex...
A bill from state Sen. Jen Day of Omaha, a Democrat in the officially nonpartisan Legislature, would have forced the state to accept the federal funding. The bipartisan support for the program became clear when Republican state Sen. Ray Aguilar, of Grand Island, m...
“The importance of these state legislative elections cannot be overstated,” said Simone Leiro, chief communications officer for The States Project. “Majorities elected this November could be in office when their state’s electors are sent to DC and having majorities that will...