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ERN’s Kevin Johnson on democratic backsliding

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

With Election Reform Stalled, Senate Should Prioritize Anti-Gerrymandering

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The real risk to American democracy

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

This story from the July 2021 edition of the Economist highlights the real risk to American democracy: Partisan election administration. The authors highlight state laws which strip election officials of administrative powers and vest them instead in partisan legislatures.

Read here.

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.