Since launching in 2017, here’s just some of what we’ve achieved:
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To fight back against partisan manipulation of the redistricting process, we provided strategy and funding support for successful anti-gerrymandering ballot initiatives in Utah and Missouri. We also took part in a coalition, and provided key legislative support, in a successful campaign to pass anti-gerrymandering legislation in New Mexico.
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To make election outcomes better reflect voter preferences, we provided strategy and funding support for Maine’s successful ranked choice voting (RCV) ballot initiative, as well as for RCV campaigns in Massachusetts and for Congress.
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To highlight how our current winner-take-all system encourages extremism, we published groundbreaking research on primary elections.
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To get partisanship out of election administration, we developed and promoted innovative new impartial methods for choosing state chief election officials.
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To build a broad-based consensus around fixing the Electoral College, we created the Top-Two Proportional Solution.
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And to promote all of our work, we published more than 30 op-eds in media outlets including The Washington Post, The Hill, Governing, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, and CommonWealth magazine.