Global expertise in support of U.S. election reform

ERN’s core issue is now front-page news.

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

AEI Webinar: ERN’s Kevin Johnson on restoring trust in elections

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With election reform stalled, Senate should prioritize anti-gerrymandering

Absent a remarkable change of heart from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, the For the People Act seems headed for defeat. Democratic congressional leaders insist on binding the bill’s many elements as one package, but they should now shift focus to the individual components with at least some chance of becoming law.

Doing so will require Democrats to back away from battling the much-discussed restrictive election legislation in Georgia and other states. This will be a hard step to take, but some perspective can help.

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The time has come for nonpartisan state election leadership

Faced with one of the most bitterly contested elections in our history, and confronting death threats, a pandemic and frequent legal changes, most of America’s secretaries of state performed heroically.

One way to honor their heroism would be to fix an increasingly untenable contradiction with which secretaries of state are forced to reckon.

Read more here.