We believe that every single issue we care about — from climate change to gun safety, from health care to military spending — cannot be fixed until we FIX DEMOCRACY FIRST
Equal Citizens — a nonprofit founded by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig — is dedicated to reforms that will achieve citizen equality. Through a series of projects that aim to restore the core promise of citizen equality in our Constitution, we will end the corruption of our representative democracy.
OUR PROJECTS
EQUAL VOTES
A legal challenge to the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes
In a democracy, all votes should count equally. In our democracy, when voting for the president, they do not. Because of the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes, if you don’t vote for the candidate who wins your state, your vote counts for nothing. That violates the Constitution’s “one person, one vote” principle. We plan to challenge this system in the courts. Join this fight for citizen equality. Learn more →
END SUPER PACS
We’re fighting super PACs in Alaska. If we win, we could end super PACs nationwide.
Working with citizens in Alaska — where state law gives citizens the right to demand election law be enforced — we want to take this question to the Supreme Court: What would the Framers have said about super PACs? Learn more →
ELECTORS FREEDOM
Resolving the constitutional freedom of presidential electors.
We are currently providing legal help to the electors in Colorado and Washington who were threatened or fined by their state government for voting their conscience in 2016. Learn more →
CREATIVE DEMOCRACY CONTEST
You make it. We promote it. Together, we can save democracy.
Creative Democracy is a design contest for democracy reform related graphics, memes, and videos. #CreativeDemocracy Learn more →
FIX THE CLASSICS ACT
Help us stop Congress from selling our culture to the highest bidder.
The CLASSICS Act would give a new right for already created work, protecting them until 2067; which means, in some cases, for a term of more than 140 years! In exchange, the public gets nothing. Learn more →
OUR PROJECTS
EQUAL VOTES
A legal challenge to the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes
In a democracy, all votes should count equally. In our democracy, when voting for the president, they do not. Because of the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes, if you don’t vote for the candidate who wins your state, your vote counts for nothing. That violates the Constitution’s “one person, one vote” principle. We plan to challenge this system in the courts. Join this fight for citizen equality. Learn more →
END SUPER PACS
We’re fighting super PACs in Alaska.If we win, we could end super PACs nationwide.
Working with citizens in Alaska — where state law gives citizens the right to demand election law be enforced — we want to take this question to the Supreme Court: What would the Framers have said about super PACs? Learn more →
CREATIVE DEMOCRACY CONTEST
You make it. We promote it. Together, we can save democracy. Creative Democracy is a contest for creative, passionate people.
Learn more →
ELECTORS FREEDOM
We are currently providing legal help to the electors in Colorado and Washington who were threatened or fined by their state government for voting their conscience in 2016.
Learn more →
FIX THE CLASSICS ACT
The CLASSICS Act would give a new right for already created work, protecting them until 2067; which means, in some cases, for a term of more than 140 years! In exchange, the public gets nothing. Help us stop Congress from selling our culture to the highest bidder.
Learn more →
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR
EQUAL
REPRESENTATION
Citizens should be represented equally in elections
EQUAL
DEPENDENCE
Representatives should depend on citizens equally
EQUAL FREEDOM
TO VOTE
Citizens should have the same opportunity to vote
LATEST NEWS
IVN: Courts to Hear Legal Challenge to Electoral College
What can be done to improve the way we elect our president? The current system, where nearly every state gives all of its electoral votes to whatever candidate wins that state, is nonsensical. It throws out tens of millions of votes and forces candidates to focus on...
Washington Post: Here’s how newspapers could help you register to vote
Newspapers across the country should follow the Times and print a voter registration form on their front pages. And what better day for the media to promote democratic participation than on Sept. 25, National Voter Registration...
Democracy Café: Why Joaquin Gonzalez has joined the all-out effort to overhaul the Electoral College
When Joaquin Gonzalez heard about the effort of Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig and other compatriots to challenge and prospectively overhaul the 'unrepresentative' way Electoral College votes are distributed via a winner-take-all system, he immediately reached...
Medium: Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport: What We Learned From a Voting Experiment with Bassnectar
When most older people hear electronic dance music (EDM), they think of reckless young people wasting their lives away on mindless indulgence, and to be honest, we were somewhat skeptical when Bassnectar invited us to run an election reform education program at his...
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