


Trump’s 2020 grievance tour fell flat in Georgia, but his lies about the election are animating GOP races around the country
Originally published in Business Insider, by Grace Panetta Former President Donald Trump took his train of grievances down to Georgia, but the voters wanted no part in it. Trump tried to exact revenge on incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp for certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory by endorsing his challenger, former Sen. David Perdue, who said…

University of Michigan Panel – Rebuilding Trust in American Civic Institutions

Ohio’s Map-Making Merry-Go-Round
Originally published on The Dispatch, by Harvest Prude MANSFIELD, Ohio—A crowd of around 200 mingled in a spacious ballroom for Richland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner earlier this month. Guests sporting red dresses or red ties chatted about the contentious GOP Senate primary in the state and local party politics at tables draped in…

New efforts seek to build trust in elections, in the face of a still-thriving 2020 election denier community
Originally published by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute | April 11, 2022 By Steven Rosenfeld As 2022’s primaries approach, an unprecedented wave of public and private efforts are underway to foster trust in election operations and election officials in response to ongoing claims by Donald Trump and his supporters, including many officeholders and candidates, that…

What happens if officials who run elections think they’re rigged?
Originally published on The 19th News website. By Barbara Rodriguez Tina Peters says she was just looking into potential election fraud. Prosecutors say the county election official in western Colorado was involved in an illegal election security breach. Even as she faces criminal charges, Peters is continuing to spread falsehoods about the integrity of the 2020 election,…

Webinar: Neutralizing Partisan Incentives for Election Officials

ERN Joins the Bridge Alliance

Jan. 6 votes show the link between primary system and more extreme views in Congress
This post by ERN Fellow Al Vanderklipp originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Only hours after the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, with the calls to “stop the steal” still reverberating under the Capitol Rotunda, 139 Republican members of the House of Representatives voted to oppose the valid electoral votes sent from Arizona and Pennsylvania, in…
