Conservatives and liberals agree on how to restore trust in our elections, according to our newly released report.
After the 2020 election, we wanted to see if we could bring people from across the political spectrum together to forge solutions to one of our country’s most contentious issues: trustworthy elections.
Since then, we’ve had 26 workshops with 194 evenly-balanced conservatives and liberals. Together, they found 727 unanimous points of agreement, which we’ve distilled into 23 solutions.
Some of the most surprising solutions include:
- All states should implement no-excuse-needed absentee ballots
- States should require a person to show voter ID when voting
- No state legislature or elected or appointed (non-judicial) official should be able to overturn election results
This report could provide a blueprint for how to ensure conservatives and liberals trust and accept the outcomes of our elections. It shows—when you put everyday Americans across the political spectrum together in one room—we can find a way to move forward on some of our country’s most contentious issues.
How did it come together? With the work of volunteers on the ground. A special thank you to Reena Bernards, Bill Carberry, Larry Mayes, and Walt McKee for their leadership on this report.
It was presented to the nation at a live virtual fireside chat last night at 7pm ET.
