After last fall’s election of La Plata County’s Board of County Commissioners, we read of some county neighbors complaining about the “undemocratic” method used to elect commissioners in our county.

For decades Republicans in GOP-dominated Nebraska have tried and failed to upend the state’s unusual method of splitting its ...

A startup company with UNO ties offers pulse polls and other ways to connect with elected officials, candidates and community ...

On January 6, 2025, Vice President Kamala Harris certified the Electoral College vote that formally confirmed Donald Trump as ...

One can argue with a straight face that failing to allow voters to elect the president of their choice is an infringement on representative democracy. In one defensible worldview, giving voters the ...

Counting unauthorized immigrants hurts states like Kansas, argues a lawsuit that Kobach joined. States like Texas and ...

With the expiration of the 118th Congress this month, Senators Durbin, Schatz, and Welch’s constitutional amendment “to abolish the Electoral College” expired. It aimed “to provide for the direct ...

Education policy is set by the state Board of Regents, who are chosen by the State Legislature. Under law, local school ...

“Winner-take-all tends to depress voter turnout. It does so by creating the perception among many people that voting doesn’t matter when the outcome is all but predetermined. This is especially true ...

Nebraskans came out in big numbers Thursday to criticize — but mostly to defend — the state’s unusual system of awarding Electoral College votes for president by congressional district. State Sen.

Voters wanting to protect Nebraska's "Blue Dot" packed a legislative hearing Wednesday to oppose two measures that would return the state to "winner-take-all" for presidential elections.

Nebraskans filled the halls of the state Capitol Thursday afternoon, most of them there to oppose two proposals to restore a ...