RELEASE: Elections experts, law professors, former President of National Association of Secretaries of State urge Congress to pass state vote-counting deadline extension to avoid crisis
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Our laws will carry us through the 2020 election
This blog post originally appeared on The Fulcrum’s Election Dissection. John Adams issued a mantra amidst the American Revolution: “Ours is a country of laws not men.” In today’s time of turmoil, as President Trump questions the integrity of the upcoming election, the words of the second president should give us some solace. During the…
State Election Chiefs Should Be Umpires, Not Players
This op-ed originally appeared in GOVERNING. Election specialists and national security experts have been gaming out scenarios for this November, assessing how candidates, supporters and media will respond if voting results are delayed or disputed. The 40 secretaries of state who are chief election officials also play important roles in these scenarios. Local-level officials handle ballot-counting and…
Senator Marco Rubio cites ERN oped in proposing electoral college timing change
Excerpt from “American Should Expect Election Chaos,” by Senator Marco Rubio, published in Medium August 6, 2020 “There are also steps we can take as elected officials. First, we must clearly signal to foreign adversaries that meddling in our elections will be met with a commensurately harsh response. Congress should immediately pass and President Trump…
Washington Post: There are two easy steps to avoiding chaos this election. We haven’t taken them yet.
Originally published in The Washington Post | July 10, 2020 Across the country, election officials are living with a palpable sense of dread. Their worry is less about who will win or lose on Election Day than about how our vast, diverse system of voting will function amid a pandemic. Evidence from some primaries this…
The Fulcrum: With faithless electors fixed, we must now end winner-take-all
Originally published in The Fulcrum | July 10, 2020 The Supreme Court has disarmed one time bomb ticking away in our presidential election system — the risk of “faithless” electors throwing an election to an undeserving candidate. Other critical problems remain, which the decision can play a part in helping us address. The court’s conclusion…
Election Reformers Network Statement on the Death of Former IRI President Lorne Craner
July 5, 2020 Election Reformers Network (ERN) joins with democracy activists and organizations around the world in mourning the death of Lorne Craner. Mr. Craner served as foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain, longtime president of the International Republican Institute, and Assistant Secretary of State. As a tireless advocate for democracy, Mr. Craner worked…
The 26th Amendment: How it was won, and what it means for our time
Description: Election Reformers Network’s Kevin Johnson leads Project 18 Vote’s Patricia Keefer, Jay Berman, fmr. Chief of Staff for Senator Birch Bayh, American Promise co-founder Jeff Clements, and CEO of Bridge USA, Manu Meel in a discussion about the history of the 18-year-old vote and what we can learn from the 26th Amendment, which was…
Election Reformers Network Affirms Black Lives Matter
June 22, 2020 The Election Reformers Network (ERN) stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement and disadvantaged populations in the United States and around the world. Banishing racism concerns all of us because the conditions that allow for its systemic exercise are deeply rooted in the political, social, and economic fabrics of all…
An Open Letter from America’s Human Rights and Democracy Community To U.S. Political Leaders
We join this letter from profound love of our country, and from personal experience with what freedom and democracy in the United States symbolize for people around the world. In working to strengthen democracy and human rights overseas, we have seen nations overcome monumental crises in pursuit of freedom. So often these heroic acts have…