RELEASE: Election Reformers Network Congratulates Election Officials and Calls for Acceptance of Election Results
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Carnegie: What Washington Can Learn About Elections—From Abroad
This post appeared on The Carnegie Endowment website. BY ASHLEY QUARCOO, THOMAS CAROTHERS Competitive elections may be a hallmark of democracy, but in severely polarized political contexts they can exacerbate tensions that end up ripping apart democratic norms and institutions. They can trigger unfounded accusations of fraud, fuel claims of an election that has been stolen,…
FairVote’s Electoral Systems 101
This post originally appeared on FairVote’s website. Electoral Systems 101 There are two main families of electoral systems in the world: proportional and winner-take-all. All single-winner systems are, by definition, winner-take-all. Multi-winner systems may be proportional or winner-take all. Single-winner systems vs Multi-winner systems Sometimes it makes sense to elect just one person. For example, a…
Brennan Center: Automatic Voter Registration, a Summary
This post originally appeared on The Brennan Center website. Automatic voter registration (AVR) is an innovative policy that streamlines the way Americans register to vote. AVR makes two simple, yet transformative, changes to the way our country has traditionally registered voters. First, AVR makes voter registration “opt-out” instead of “opt-in”—eligible citizens who interact with government agencies…
Vox: Are there reforms that can prevent gerrymandering?
This post originally appeared on the Vox website. By Andrew Prokop The main reason for partisan gerrymandering in the US is that in most states, redistricting is handled by self-interested politicians in state legislatures. The most commonly proposed reform would take gerrymandering out of politicians’ hands entirely, and let an independent nonpartisan commission handle the job. Several…
A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come
This story originally appeared in The Atlantic’s October 2018 issue. Story by Anne Applebaum On December 31, 1999, we threw a party. It was the end of one millennium and the start of a new one; people very much wanted to celebrate, preferably somewhere exotic. Our party fulfilled that criterion. We held it at Chobielin, the manor house…
Analysis of philanthropic opportunities to mitigate the disinformation/propaganda problem
This post originally appeared on The Hewlett Foundation’s website. By Kelly Born and Nell Edgington While the problems of disinformation, misinformation and propaganda are not new, certain aspects of modern technology and communications appear to be contributing to a rapid polarization and democratic deterioration in the U.S. and abroad. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Madison…
The Omidyar Group: Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy?
This document originally appeared on The Omidyar Group website.
Gehl and Porter: Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America
This document originally appeared on The Harvard Business School website. BY KATHERINE M. GEHL AND MICHAEL E. PORTER