Democracy doesn’t survive on good intentions—it survives on strong rules. The Guardrail spotlights the major flaws in our system and highlights the reforms that can get American democracy back on track.
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First Edition: Election Governance Matters!
This ongoing curation of news and commentary focuses on the people, institutions, and rules governing U.S. elections.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Election Governance Matters, a publication of Election Reformers Network. We’l...
Trump’s Firing of Election Commissioners Illustrates America’s Crisis of Election Governance
Yesterday, President Trump fired all the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the federal agency responsible for guidance and support to state election administration. This dangerous attack on an independent entity...
A Message to MA Political Leaders: More Choice Is Better for the State, the Nation, and Your Party
Baystate voters will decide this November whether to reform the state’s primary election system, now that a last-ditch challenge by Democratic insiders has failed in court. That’s good news: voters should be in the driver’s seat of our demo...
A Bipartisan Blueprint for Better Redistricting
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It’s great to see this robust set of nonpartisan solutions to the gerrymandering fiasco from the Problem Solvers Caucus. Too many people have come to believe that their side winning the next election is w...
Even in These Dark Times, Progress on Election Reform Is Possible, and Happening
Photo by Tanja Tepavac on Unsplash
In recent weeks, despair about our democracy has grown. The gerrymandering race-to-the-bottom has shifted into an even higher gear, with states red and blue stopping at nothing to eke out more seats for t...
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Election Reformers Network (ERN) is a nonpartisan nonprofit that champions research-driven policy reforms to strengthen U.S. democratic institutions and guard against rising polarization.
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