Global expertise in support of U.S. election reform

We are not a fundamentally divided people,

but we need to fix our rules.

The U.S. ranks 90th out of 112 countries in confidence in the honesty of elections.

Source: Gallup Polls

U.S Elections rank last among all Western Democracies in Electoral Integrity.

Source: Electoral Integrity Project

The average U.S. Congressional approval rating from 2012 to present is 15.9%.

Source: Gallup Polls

Hyperbole aside, how does the Georgia bill measure up to global standards?

Kevin Johnson and Larry Garber offer an international perspective on the Peach State’s newly-adopted election laws for The Fulcrum.

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Why Judges, Not Lawmakers, Should Rule on Disputed Elections

State legislatures and Congress are ill-suited — and too partisan — for the task of weighing evidence when elections are contested. Judicial supervision of contested elections has become the norm in most democracies around the world. An outlier in this area as in so many, the U.S. allows a considerable role for legislatures. The Constitution, for example, makes the House and Senate “the Judge of the Elections … of its own Members.”

What can our country do to fall more in line with international standards?

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How the rest of the world avoided COVID election chaos

We’re not the only country holding elections during Covid-19. But a look at what has happened elsewhere presents a dramatic contrast with the United States, where public-health decisions became a partisan legal conflict.

In reviewing the policies adopted by other democracies during the pandemic, ERN finds that state agencies operated effectively, with minimal interference from litigation.

Read more here.