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Hope and Experience: Election Reform through the Lens of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project

Hope and Experience: Election Reform through the Lens of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project

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Written by John C. Fortier, Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas Mann - American Enterprise Institute Monday, 23 August 2010 07:41

The American electoral system is in many respects an outlier among the world’s democracies. The indirect election of its president through the casting of electoral votes by the states, with no federal constitutional standing for the popular vote, is perhaps the most peculiar. Another is the extraordinary range and frequency of elections, matched only by Switzerland’s system. In the realm of election administration, two characteristics stand out: the highly decentralized nature of the system and the oversight and control of the election system by partisan elected officials. more >>>