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Wisconsin Examiner: Wisconsin should stop electing justices to the state Supreme Court

Election Reformers Network

This article, which cites ERN’s policy brief on a replacement system for judicial elections, was originally published in the Wisconsin Examiner.  “What would it take to actually return to an independent, impartial judiciary? The nonpartisan Election Reformers Network, a Washington DC-based group that works on election administration, independent redistricting and strengthening democratic institutions around the…

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

Kevin Johnson
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...

ERN Calls for the Supreme Court to Protect Election Innovation and Reject the Independent State Legislature Theory

Al Vanderklipp
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...

ERN in the News: From Brooks to Bangor

Kevin Johnson
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...

Bangor Daily News Editorial Board: Secretaries of state should not be in charge of their own elections

Election Reformers Network

Originally published in The Bangor Daily News.  “According to the nonprofit Election Reformers Network, 15 secretaries of state, both Democrats and Republicans, were on the ballot last Tuesday. Most of them were running for reelection to their current posts. The organization called on those officials to recuse themselves from any recount that might occur in…

PBS NewsHour: How your secretary of state affects elections and why you should care

Election Reformers Network

Originally published on the PBS NewsHour website.  “…In some states, [Secretaries of State] also perform non-election roles. They can oversee business licenses, or, as in Arizona, be first-in-line successors to the governorship. The Texas secretary of state publishes the government’s rules and regulations, authorizes people as notaries public and acts as a senior advisor on border issues and…

The Atlantic: “The Best Way to Protect Elections From Partisan Manipulation”

Election Reformers Network

Former White House Counsel and Law Professor Larry Schwartztol cites ERN research in his opinion piece on impartial elections for The Atlantic: “Nonpartisan, professionalized election administration is the norm in many other democracies; the American system of allowing partisan politicians to run elections is an outlier. Democracies around the world administer their elections in a host…

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