Global expertise in support of U.S. election reform

The founders of Election Reformers Network have worked to support more than 1,000 election processes overseas.

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

We seek to support similar changes in the US.

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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

Laboratories of Democracy at Work: A Comparison of the 2018 Anti-Gerrymandering Ballot Initiatives

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Massachusetts Needs Ranked Choice Voting in Time for the Primaries

By Kevin Johnson and Rob Richie, Published by Commonwealth, March 3, 2019

“We owe it to our democracy to have the greater clarity that ranked choice voting can provide for the upcoming primaries. Massachusetts can lead the way.”

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HR 1: Bipartisan Support for Popular Political Reform Evaporates in Congress

Perhaps it is not surprising that Friday’s vote on HR1 broke strictly along partisan lines … And yet, just last year, many of the same reforms won backing from Republican majorities in several states.

The risk of HR1 is that it may make those kinds of successes harder to achieve next cycle by rebranding reforms with potential for broad support as “for Democrats only.”

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