CNN – “Fareed’s Take: We need a set of post-Trump reforms”
12.06.2020
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria calls for impartial state election administration as part of a broader set of Biden-era reforms.
NYT – “Trump Didn’t Break Our Democracy. But Did He Fatally Weaken It?”
12.15.2020
Contributors Susan Hyde and Elizabeth Saunders cite ERN’s proposals to reform the office of chief election officer as part of a broad slate of reforms necessary to strengthen U.S. democracy.
Washington Post – “Before 2024, we had better fix the election law failings we saw last year”
01.31.2021
The Post’s Editorial Board calls for increased ethics rules for partisan election officials in their list of suggestions for reform.
American Enterprise Institute’s Kevin Kosar
04.15.2021
AEI‘s Kevin Kosar expresses that proposals to make the secretary of state position more nonpartisan are a welcome change in this FairVote webinar.
Washington Post – “Imagine 2020 in Georgia with an election-denier in charge. That could happen in 2024.”
05.27.2021
The Post’s Editorial Board calls recognizes the threat of extremist, conspiracy-peddling secretary of state candidates and calls for recusal and accreditation processes as a means of defusing the situation.
Colorado Politics – “The referees should not be picked by either team”
06.06.2021
Eric Sondermann argues that though Colorado’s elections have been run well to this point, the conflict of interest inherent in partisan election officials is too great to ignore.
The National Task Force on Election Crises
2021
In their recent report, Strengthening Our Elections and Preventing Election Crises: Lessons and Recommendations from the 2020 General Election, this cross-professional team of experts recommends that “reforms should be instituted, as recommended by the Election Reformers Network […] to institute meaningful guardrails to limit secretaries of state partisanship.”
National Conference of State Legislators’ Wendy Underhill
07.02.2021
In this thoughtful piece on election subversion written by former CT SOS Miles Rapoport and Cecily Hines, Underhill states: “Elections should be run by nonpartisan professionals; legislators do not know how to run elections.”
Election Law Scholar Rick Hasen
09.18.2021
In his academic paper, Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States, Hasen writes: “Laws that allow state takeovers of local elections should include safeguards that ensure that the takeovers are not politically motivated, and that the actual administration of elections will be done on a fair bipartisan or nonpartisan basis.”