While the SCOTUS' June 2023 decision to send Alabama maps back to the drawing board is laudable, Congress must establish standards to limit gerrymandering across the U.S. well in advance of the next redistricting cycle, writes ERN VP Heather Balas for The Fulcrum.
Free countries around the world are finding new ways to stem political polarization and combat misinformation and disinformation.
Adopting best practices from other countries is an opportunity to buttress policies and procedures that make US elections free and fair and draw inspiration from others facing the same challenges.
Election Reformers Network is calling for an end to "prison gerrymandering" in Michigan.
Extreme partisan gerrymandering is now freely permitted in North Carolina. It may soon be in other states to come, and it has been for federal courts since the 2019 Rucho v Common Cause decision, which reached similar conclusions for similarly flawed reasons. Congress needs to act.
Democracy in the balance: Election and voter issues continue to be of grave concern. Trevor Potter will explore peak pandemic voter access expansion policies, the rise of the “election denier,” as well as election manipulation efforts and post-2020 efforts to roll back voter access. Potter will provide the CLC response. ERN’s Kevin Johnson moderates.
This opinion piece by ERN Executive Director Kevin Johnson and Senior Fellow Al Vanderklipp originally appeared on The Independent Voter News Network.
ERN Executive Director Kevin Johnson speaks to the Role of Social Innovation in Democracy Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. This conference took place March 16–18, 2023.
The nation is watching Wisconsin as a state Supreme Court race with major implications for democratic outcomes—at both state and national levels—becomes an all-out spending war on behalf of the liberal and conservative candidates. No one expects the record-breaking spending or heated partisan rhetoric to die down until the race in this crucial swing state is decided.
Our efforts as part of the redistricting coalition in New Mexico contributed to legislative committee passage of HJR 1, a joint resolution for an independent redistricting commission.