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  • Steven Hill

    Chief editor & contributor @DemocracySOS, author of 7 books incl 10 Steps to Repair US Democracy, Fixing Elections & Europe's Promise.FairVote (co-founder, fmr asst dir) New America, CHT, WZB, articles/intvus NYTimes, WAPost, Wall St Jrnl, CNN, CSpan

  • Alan Durning

    ED at Sightline Institute, Cascadia's think tank.

  • Terry Bouricius

    Former politician and election reform policy analyst, since turned democratic lottery advocate.

  • Expand Democracy

    Expand Democracy seeks to catalyze and support action by organizations and elected officials in support of electoral reform solutions. We support existing reform efforts and draw attention to ways of advancing new ideas and strategies.

  • Rob Richie

    Rob Richie leads Expand Democracy. As head of FairVote, he created the partisan voting index, designed Alaska’s Top Four system, and advanced the Fair Representation Act, National Popular Vote, automatic voter registration, and ranked choice voting.

  • Eveline Dowling
  • Paul Haughey

    Political commentator, author of "Divided and Conquered: How to Fix our Divisive Political System," and volunteer for CalRCV.org promoting ranked choice voting.

  • Meredith Sumpter

    FairVote CEO

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