ABSTRACT
This chapter examines state-level efforts, with a particular emphasis placed on the two states that have enacted changes, Maine and Nebraska. It examines these state-level efforts, with a particular emphasis placed on the two states that have enacted changes, Maine and Nebraska. Maine's renowned US senator, Republican Margaret Chase Smith, was a persistent national critic of the Electoral College. Nebraska is the only other state that has changed its method of elector selection since Maine did so in 1969, and is also the only other state that does not use a winner-take-all method. For those whose biggest objection to the Electoral College is its failure to guarantee that the popular vote winner will become president, state-level plans aren't enough reform. Majority of American state legislatures have debated Electoral College reform since the 2000 election, but none has changed its own method of counting votes as yet.
