The Fair and Participatory Elections Program seeks to improve the voting process by promoting best practices and reducing barriers to voting. The Program also seeks to enhance fair representation and competitive elections and to strengthen government transparency and responsiveness.

The Foundation works with state and other government officials and entities, researchers, and non-partisan reformers to:

• Ensure technical integrity of elections by professionalizing the administration of elections, insulating them from partisan political control, and supporting independent structures to oversee elections and related functions;
• Reduce administrative, statutory, and structural barriers to participation to enhance fair representation and transparent, competitive elections; and
• Strengthen government accountability by promoting transparency and supporting reforms to increase the responsiveness of government and elected officials to their constituencies, free of conflicts of interest or influences inconsistent with democratic ideals.

Click here to see a list of active grants in this program.