Events


Upcoming Events

Strengthening Trust and Professionalism in Election Administration: Ethics, Communication, and Workforce Development

December 10, 2025

Join ERN to discuss the findings of our needs assessment focusing on election official ethics training.

PAST Events

The Carter Center Election Bites – “Recounts and Audits”

November 10, 2020
Past Events
Webinars

Description: November 10, 2020: As the initial vote counting wraps up, talk turns to recounts and audits. Nearly half of all states fo automatic recounts if the margin of victory is below .25 or .5 percent; in others, losers must request and pay for recounts. But what exactly are officials counting? And what’s the difference…

The Carter Center Webinar – “The 2020 Election: Are You Prepared?”

October 8, 2020
Past Events
Webinars

Description: October 8, 2020: The 2020 U.S. election is likely to be more complicated than those in the past. Carter Center staffers and other leading U.S. election experts tell you what to expect this election season and how to make sure your vote is counted. To learn more about the Center’s U.S. election public information…

The 26th Amendment: How it was won, and what it means for our time

June 30, 2020
Past Events
Webinars

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…

States at Play in the Fight Against Gerrymandering

March 23, 2020
Past Events
Webinars

Description: March 23, 2020: ERN’s inaugural webinar, States at Play in the Fight Against Gerrymandering, features expert panelists Cathy Duvall (of Democracy Ascent Advisors) and Clean Missouri’s Sean Soendker Nicholson, who discuss the outcome of the SCOTUS decision on gerrymandering – and where it leaves room for state action.

An International Perspective on Fair Representation: Remarks from the 2020 FairVote FRA Symposium

February 2, 2020
Democracy
Election Reform
Fair Representation Act
Past Events
Ranked Choice Voting

— Thank you Rob, It’s been a pleasure to get to know you and this great organization. It’s also an honor to co-host this event. When we got started, one of our first steps was to seek wisdom from Rob and Cynthia, and Rob, it was good to learn that conversation was a coming…

Keeping Our Eyes on the Constitutional Amendment Prize, Remarks at the 2019 National Citizens Leadership Conference

October 25, 2019
Blog Post
Campaign Finance
Democracy
Election Reform
Past Events

Thank you Jeff, and thank you to Nancy MacLean and Neal Simon for these critically important insights. As Jeff said, here are two people with very different starting points and very different methodologies arriving at the same conclusion: that we need fundamental structural reform. Fundamental change is what the organization I lead, Election Reformers Network,…