John C. Fortier

John C. Fortier is a research fellow at AEI, where he serves as principal contributor to the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission. He writes a regular column for Politico. He also serves as the director of the Center for the Study of American Democracy at Kenyon College.

Fortier frequently comments on elections, election administration, the Electoral College, continuity of government, presidential transitions, congress, and the presidency. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, The News Hour, CBS News, NBC’s Today Show, CNN, FOX News, NPR, Bloomberg, BBC and many other media outlets. Fortier has testified before Congress and various commissions on continuity of government, election administration and DC voting.

Fortier’s books include Second-Term Blues: How George W. Bush Has Governed (edited with Norman J. Ornstein; Brookings Institution Press, 2007), Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises, and Perils (AEI Press, 2006), and After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College (Third Edition, AEI Press 2004). He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Yale Law Journal, Ohio State Law Journal, The Election Law Journal and other major publications.

He received a B.A. from Georgetown and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College.