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The 19th News: What happens if officials who run elections think they're rigged?
April 6, 2022

The 19th News: What happens if officials who run elections think they're rigged?

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, which experts have said was the most secure in U.S. history...

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ERN Joins the Bridge Alliance
April 1, 2022

ERN Joins the Bridge Alliance

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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Webinar: Neutralizing Partisan Incentives for Election Officials
April 1, 2022

Webinar: Neutralizing Partisan Incentives for Election Officials

In the last three years, election administration and election officials have been pulled into the political fray. Most election systems are designed to be led by nonpartisan experts with the best interests of all voters in mind. But today, these systems and experts must contend with growing partisan polarization, political vitriol, and misinformation.

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Op-Ed: New approaches can keep partisans out of election administration
February 1, 2022

Op-Ed: New approaches can keep partisans out of election administration

This post by ERN Executive Director Kevin Johnson originally appeared on The Fulcrum. It points out that elections in 2022 for secretary of state featured well-funded "stop the steal" candidates who appeared ready to undermine elections to help their side win.

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Revamp House’s election method? Consider the last Parliament vote.
January 30, 2022

Revamp House’s election method? Consider the last Parliament vote.

Here in America we don’t have the same range of parties as in the U.K. — in part because our Congress is undersized, with only one-seventh the number of representatives per citizen. But we do have political groupings that have trouble gaining representation in proportion to their share of the population.

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Webinar: How Can We Take Partisanship out of Election Administration?
January 13, 2022

Webinar: How Can We Take Partisanship out of Election Administration?

With partisan loyalists aiming to control election administration, it's clear that America's antiquated system of politically affiliated election officials needs reform.

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Democrats, don't reject GOP offer to fix electoral count law
January 12, 2022

Democrats, don't reject GOP offer to fix electoral count law

This post by ERN Executive Director Kevin Johnson originally appeared on The Hill. With Jan. 6 dominating headlines last week, Senate Republicans raised a topic they are not often associated with: election reform. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and others proposed fixing the Electoral Count Act (ECA), the archaic law governing the count of...

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Insider: Meet the candidate who wants to be 'exhibit A' for getting partisan politics out of the business of running elections
December 17, 2021

Insider: Meet the candidate who wants to be 'exhibit A' for getting partisan politics out of the business of running elections

Julie Anderson, who is vying for the role of Washington State's secretary of state, says she likes "a challenge." But even in a state that's elected independent-minded secretaries of state in the past, Anderson said, trying to get elected as a nonpartisan candidate within the US's two-party political system is inherently an uphill battle...

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Wisconsin election takeover threatens our republican form of government
December 9, 2021

Wisconsin election takeover threatens our republican form of government

This post by Kevin Johnson and Al Vanderklipp originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Johnson and Vanderklipp are, respectively, the executive director and research fellow for the Election Reformers Network and the co-authors of Nonpartisanship Works: How Lessons from Canada Can Reestablish Trust in U.S. Election Administration. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has repeated the call for his states legislature to seize...

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What Are the Powers and Duties of Secretaries of State?
December 3, 2021

What Are the Powers and Duties of Secretaries of State?

Though Secretaries of State are the chief election official in most states, the actual duties assigned to them in state constitutions and state electoral code vary widely. With these positions drawing hyper-partisan attention, its reasonable to assume that at some point a secretary of state may attempt to influence, or even subvert, an election.

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