Global expertise in support of U.S. election reform

The founders of Election Reformers Network have supported hundreds of election processes across 70 countries over 30 years. Founders have also led successful reform campaigns in the U.S. at the constitutional amendment, ballot initiative, and legislative levels.

We have seen how improving the rules of democracy can reduce polarization, increase citizen buy-in, and improve policy outcomes.

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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

Is Presidential Elector Freedom One Risk Too Many?

What’s new at Election Reformers Network

Revamp House’s election method? Consider the last Parliament vote.

By Kevin Johnson, Published in The Fulcrum, January 30, 2020

“Our country is a dense patchwork quilt of significant minorities covered over by the all-too-familiar swaths of red and blue, monochromatic blocks that, fundamentally, are rounding errors.”

Read the full article here

An International Perspective on Fair Representation: Remarks from the 2020 FairVote FRA Symposium

We had the honor of co-hosting a symposium on the Fair Representation Act with FairVote in early February. Our Executive Director Kevin Johnson spoke at the conference on the international community’s perspective on Fair Representation, and how new democracies would likely not adopt the systems we have in place in the U.S. today.

Read Kevin’s remarks here.