2 weeks Ago
I am opposed to LB3 and LR24CA. Changing to a winner-take-all electoral vote system is said to empower Nebraska on the national stage and enable Nebraska to speak with “one voice.” It doesn’t.
Switching to winner-take-all is a sweeping attempt at voter disenfranchisement, discounting over 660,000 Nebraska citizens who reside in Congressional District 2. It is particularly offensive that the authors do not even reside within Congressional District 2, which should be opposed by at least every senator who does. The intrusive bullying driving the winner-take-all campaign is part of a larger strategy to erode voting rights, leading to widespread voter disenfranchisement.
Beginning with the 2021 redistricting, an overt attempt to partition Congressional District 2 with the aim of diluting its ability to be won by “blue” votes. That strategy was thwarted. People are also reading.
.. There followed the constitutional amendment requiring voter ID; the “Opportunity Scholarship” law that was repealed by petition, renamed, again repealed.
Now yet another voucher bill, ignoring the “will of the people.” Then the limit on the number of bills a senator could introduce. This year came the rule change taking away “present not voting.
” In the wings is another giant step backward with the attempt to restrict vote-by-mail, eliminate online and mail registration and impose arbitrary hurdles to early voting. Please, honored senators, show Nebraskans that the unicameral retains its own autonomy and is not to be bullied by current or former governors, the Nebraska GOP, the RNC or the president. Mike Powers, Palmyra Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!.
