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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

American Democracy Has a ‘Tyranny of the Minority’ Problem. Maine Has the Solution.

What’s new at Election Reformers Network

Grantee Update: Ranked Choice Voting Committee Submits 80,000 Signatures to Restore Ranked Choice in Maine

A petition with 80,000 signatures was turned in with the goal being to restore the voting system approved by Mainers at the polls in 2016.

Maine became the first state to adopt the election overhaul, which lets voters rank candidates by preference.

But state lawmakers delayed the system and repealed the law when Maine’s Supreme Court raised constitutional concerns.

In Maine ERN Backs First Ever State-Wide Poll Using Ranked Choice Voting

In early May, Election Reformers Network joined forces with the Maine League Women Voters, Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, and FairVote, to sponsor a pre-election poll to gauge front runners in key Maine races and to help show voters how the upcoming ranked choice election will work. The first-ever poll of state-wide races using ranked choice voting and tabulation confirmed that voters can use the voting system easily, and further supported voter understanding of ranked choice through extensive coverage by the Bangor Daily News.

Poll: Moody, Mills are front-runners in Maine’s unsettled June primaries

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