TCF has long sought to strengthen the institution of voting in America and to guarantee that voters have the information they need to make knowledgeable decisions. Our early work was a major force in promoting televised presidential debates, eventually resulting in the establishment of the bipartisan commission for presidential debates. And for several decades we have studied the sometimes troublesome role of money in election campaigns, but also the promise of technology in improving our electoral system. Following the much-disputed election of 2000, TCF instituted a commission on federal election reform that resulted in the 2002 Help America Vote Act. Our subsequent work on the growth of state voter identification laws and other methods of voter disenfranchisement called early attention to a movement that has since gained increasing strength.
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