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Back to Normal Isn’t Good Enough for US Democracy after the 2022 Midterms

Kevin JohnsonBlog Post, Topics: Election Dispute Resolution, Topics: ERN Updates, Topics: Impartial Election Administration, Topics: International Democracy Insights
The midterm elections have raised hopes that democracy-distortion fever is breaking at last. Prominent swing state candidates who ran on election lies lost because of it. Local officials trying to block results they didn't like were easily brought to heel. Warnings from pundits about an underground right-wing takeover of local election infrastructure proved wildly exaggerated.    In short, a...
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ERN Calls for the Supreme Court to Protect Election Innovation and Reject the Independent State Legislature Theory

Al VanderklippBlog Post, Topics: ERN Updates
Statement from ERN Executive Director Kevin Johnson: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper. This case is about the “Independent State Legislature” (ISL) theory and whether state legislatures are subject to checks and balances when they pass state laws governing federal elections. The Court’s decision has the potential to put more power...
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ERN in the News: From Brooks to Bangor

Kevin JohnsonBlog Post, Topics: ERN Updates
ERN in the Post-Election News — Summary: David Brooks cites our work on election deniers running for secretary of state on PBS NewsHour.  ERN opinion piece on the message from voters published in Talking Points Memo. Our call for secretaries of state running for office to recuse gets results in Washington. The Bangor Daily News editorializes in support of our position on...
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Election Reformers Network Calls for All Secretaries of State Who Are Candidates to Recuse Themselves From Key Roles in Close Races

Kevin JohnsonBlog Post, Topics: Election Dispute Resolution, Topics: ERN Updates, Topics: Impartial Election Administration
Statement from ERN Executive Director Kevin Johnson:  In Tuesday’s elections, fifteen secretaries of state (listed in the table below) who serve as their state’s most senior election administrator are themselves on the ballot in contested races, either for re-election or for governor. Although many secretaries of state manage such situations of potential conflict of interest...
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ERN Senior Counsel Mike Parsons for ELB: “New Poll Shows Path Forward on Impartial Election Administration”

Election Reformers NetworkBlog Post, ERN Op-Eds, Topics: ERN in the News

Originally published in Election Law Blog. It’s no secret that trust in U.S. elections is worryingly low.  But a new survey points the way towards a promising area for bipartisan reforms to shore up confidence in our elections: impartial election administration. The nationwide poll of 1,498 likely voters — commissioned by Election Reformers Network (ERN) and released last week — delves more deeply into how voters think elections should be run.  Its…

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PRESS RELEASE: New ERN Poll Finds Voters Want Changes to Ensure Elections Are Run Impartially

Zachary RothBlog Post, Election Administration, Topics: ERN Updates, Topics: Impartial Election Administration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 New ERN Poll Finds Voters Want Changes to Ensure Elections Are Run Impartially Polling shows strong support for rules requiring that chief election officials are qualified and free from close party ties. More than four in five voters, including large majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents, say it’s…

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ERN Applauds House Passage of Electoral Count Act Reform & Urges Senate Action

Zachary RothBlog Post, Election Administration, Topics: Election Dispute Resolution, Topics: Electoral College Reform, Topics: Impartial Election Administration

Election Reformers Network (ERN) cheered the passage in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday of a bipartisan bill to prevent subversion of the results of a presidential election, and urged the U.S. Senate to pass their version promptly. The Presidential Election Reform Act would fix dangerous flaws and vague language in the 1887 law,…

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Election Reformers Network Mourns the Passing of our Friend and Board Member Lindsay Lloyd

Election Reformers NetworkBlog Post, Topics: ERN Updates
Election Reformers Network joins with democracy activists domestically and abroad in mourning the death of W. Lindsay Lloyd, a lifelong advocate for democracy and freedom. After a distinguished career in D.C. as a staff member of the U.S. House of Representatives and working on political campaigns, Lindsay spent 16 years with the International Republican Institute,...
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ERN Joins the Bridge Alliance

Al VanderklippBlog Post, Topics: ERN Updates
ERN is proud to announce that we have joined the Bridge Alliance, a coalition of ~100 organizations working together to promote healthy self-governance in our democratic republic. This group of allies works across and outside of established ideological boundaries to support the democracy ecosystem. This move reaffirms a key tenet of ERN's theory of systemic...
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Ranked Choice Voting Can Help Reduce Political Polarization, but We Need Patience to Let It Work

Al VanderklippBlog Post, Ranked Choice Voting, Topics: Ranked Choice Voting

This post originally appeared on the Rank the Vote Blog. In November of 2019, after a hard-fought campaign, New York City voters overwhelmingly approved a ranked choice voting ballot question. With a ballot that allows support for multiple candidates in order of preference, RCV gives the electorate more impact on race outcomes and a greater…

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