Everybody counts if they'll hold that oath. This page fills in as we find the real, sourced answer — never with a guess. A blank means we haven't found it yet, not that it doesn't matter.
The idea behind this page, in the words that started it:
"Everybody counts in this site if they will hold that Oath of Office — what if somebody did not know they could vote for them because I want it to show we the people what we can do when we can see?"
So this page doesn't tell you who to vote for. It shows you who's actually running, what they've actually said and filed, and the same two numbers for everyone in the race — side by side, sourced, no label on top of it. You draw the conclusion. We just make sure you can see it.
These are four real, fixed dates from the Nebraska Secretary of State — not a reminder we made up, a countdown against the actual deadline. Counting down in your own device's clock, local time.
Source: Nebraska Secretary of State, 2026 Elections page — same dates already verified on How to vote in Nebraska. Registration deadlines shown at 11:59 PM Central unless the Secretary of State's own page states a specific time (in-person registration closes 6:00 PM). If your county sets a different local hour for in-person registration, its office is the final word — this clock is a heads-up, not the legal deadline itself.
Five official, government-run links. Not us, not a party, not a PAC — the actual agencies that run elections.
Six boxes. Check them as you actually do them — not as a promise, a record. Nothing here is saved on our end; the whole checklist lives in the link itself, so it only goes where you send it.
Check a few boxes, then copy the link — the checked state travels with the URL itself, so pasting it to someone else, or bookmarking it, brings the same boxes back checked. The download is a plain text file, nothing sent anywhere.
Three names, general election, all three real and confirmed. Not two — three. The one most coverage skips is on here too, because he's on the ballot same as the other two.
Every field below is sourced. A blank stays a blank until we find the real number.
| Candidate | Party | Current / former office | Running mate | May 12, 2026 primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Pillen Incumbent, seeking 2nd term |
Republican | Governor of Nebraska (2023–present) | Joe Kelly (Lt. Governor) | Won nomination, 76% |
| Lynne Walz | Democratic | Former State Senator, District 15 (Fremont), 2017–2025 | Larry Marvin (USAF veteran) | Won nomination, 91% |
| Brett Lindstrom | America First Party | Former State Senator, District 18 (Omaha), 2015–2023 | Mike Picard (Navy veteran, Omaha) | — ballot access by petition, no primary |
| Campaign money for this race — not yet pulled. Statewide Nebraska races file with NADC, not the FEC. Logged, not built yet. | ||||
A real thread, not a coincidence: Brett Lindstrom is the same Brett Lindstrom who was one of the nine formal applicants for Pete Ricketts' U.S. Senate seat back in January 2023 — already sourced on this site in the Pillen–Ricketts appointment case study. Same person, three years later, on the other side of a different ballot. That's the record connecting itself — we didn't have to add anything to make it true.
What they say about themselves: both campaigns were read on the same day, asked the same question, and printed side by side — plus the one claim on either site that a public record could settle. Pillen says property taxes fell for the first time in a generation; Nebraska’s own Department of Revenue table says he is right about 2024, and that 2025 went the other way by 47 times as much. Read the checked version →
Corrected 2026-09-04: this row used to say "Nonpartisan," and it was true when it was written — it isn't now. On August 14, 2026, the Secretary of State's office announced Lindstrom's petition drive had come up short: 3,358 of the required 4,000 signatures validated, after a hired signature-gathering firm’s work turned up "a significant number" flagged for fraud. He was off the ballot. On September 1, 2026, he refiled — this time as the America First Party’s candidate, with Mike Picard as his running mate — and is back on the November ballot under that label. Nothing here is a judgment about the fraud finding or the party switch; it’s the sequence, dated, because that’s what actually happened between when this page was first built and today.
Still blank, on purpose: every dollar figure for this race. Nebraska's statewide campaign finance runs through NADC, not the FEC — same system already proven out for the Juarez/Guereca state-senate work. Not built yet for this race. Check back, or if you find it first with a source, that's homework too.
In the meantime: this site does already track real, sourced money for Nebraska's federal delegation — a different set of people and a different filer (FEC, not NADC) than the Governor's race above, so the two aren't mixed together here. See who's #PAC_FUNDED and who's #HIGH_PAC_SHARE →
Beta. 68105-first, Nebraska-first — ten states built so far. Every number here is dated and linked to where it came from. A blank means we haven't found the real answer yet — we don't fill it with a guess to make the page look finished.
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