Hi John, 



Reminder, please join us tomorrow at 4pm ET for a new FairVote webinar called, “ <[link removed]>The Electoral Reform Imperative to Address Our Polarization Crisis.” <[link removed]>



There is still time to RSVP and pass this along to those who may be interested. 



Thanks! 

Emily 



Friend,



Join us next week on Wednesday, April 14 at 4pm ET for our next webinar, “ <[link removed]>The Electoral Reform Imperative to Address Our Polarization Crisis.” <[link removed]>



FairVote President and CEO Rob Richie will lead a discussion on how electoral reform can address the United State’s polarization crisis with Harvard Professor Danielle Allen and Kevin Kosar of the American Enterprise Institute, plus watch a pre-recorded discussion with Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute.





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The United States has outdated electoral rules that leave Americans unrepresented and have created incentives that are driving and reinforcing our polarization crisis. Most of our world's leading democracies have different electoral rules, and the United States has its own important history of better voting models including ranked choice voting in two states today. By adopting the Fair Representation Act, the U.S could switch to what we call “proportional ranked choice voting,” where the combination of a ranked choice voting ballot with larger fairly drawn districts would transform elections, representation and governance. Join us for a discussion on what is broken in our current system, how reforms like the Fair Representation Act could address those problems, and how best it might be won.



Learn about the panelists: 



- Yuval Levin is the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy and director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and the editor of National Affairs. He is a contributing editor to National Review and his essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, TheWall Street Journal, Commentary, The Atlantic, and many others. He is the author, most recently, of A Time to Build: From family and community to Congress and the campus, how recommitting to our institutions can revive the American dream. He has been a member of the White House domestic policy staff (under President George W. Bush) and a congressional staffer at the member, committee, and leadership levels. He holds a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.





- Danielle Allen is a James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014), Education and Equality (2016), and Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (2017). She is the co-editor of the award-winning Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013, with Rob Reich) and From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital Age (2015, with Jennifer Light). She is a former Chair of the Mellon Foundation Board, past Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She is a co-chair of a commission convened by the Academy of Arts and Sciences that last year issued a trailblazing report, Our Common Purpose, that recommends multi-member districts and ranked choice voting in congressional elections.





- Kevin R. Kosar is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies the US Congress, election reform, the administrative state, American politics, and the US Postal Service. Before joining AEI, Dr. Kosar was at the R Street Institute, where he served as vice president of policy, vice president of research partnerships, and senior fellow and director of the Governance Project. Earlier, Dr. Kosar spent more than a decade working for the Congressional Research Service, where he focused on a wide range of public administration issues. He has taught public policy at New York University and lectured on public administration at Metropolitan College of New York. His books include Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform” (University of Chicago Press, 2020); “Unleashing Opportunity: Policy Reforms for an Accountable Administrative State” (National Affairs, 2017); “Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education Standards” (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005); and “Bridging the Gap: Higher Education and Career-Centered Welfare Reform” (National Urban League/Metropolitan College of New York, 2003).



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Emily Risch

Digital Manager, FairVote 

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