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The US public is more aware than ever of partisan gerrymandering, and they’re pushing local governments to make reforms.
Chronic underfunding has made elections difficult to run in the UK. Yet the government continues to obsess over voter ID.
How much does your socio-demographic background such as income, type of work and where you were born affect who you vote for? Quite a lot.
Americans’ votes in 2020 will likely be a statement on what they think of Trump – rather than a measured choice between him and the Democratic candidate.
The Climate Strike movement shows us loud and clear that youth not only care about climate change, but that it needs to be brought to the table to cement their vote.
The Climate Strike movement shows us loud and clear that youth not only care about climate change, but that it needs to be brought to the table to cement their vote.
Senate voting is pretty complicated. Here’s how preferential voting and proportional representation work – and how to make sure your vote is counted on election day.
Explaining the equipment and the process by which hundreds of millions of ballots are collected and counted in India.
Hispanics oppose Trump’s immigration policies in larger numbers than the rest of the population. But their opinions are divided sharply across partisan lines.
After the 2016 US election and ensuing Cambridge Analytic scandal, there was a lot of scaremongering around digital election campaigning. But this hysteria is, for the most part, unfounded.
Keep up-to-date with how the federal election is playing out locally. Our State of the States series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia’s states.
States may have passed these laws with the aim of reducing turnout. But new evidence suggests that they have a minimal or nonexistent effect.
School textbooks from Germany deal with Europe in much greater detail and with more of a positive angle than those published in England.
According to a new study, Mandarin-speaking voters look to their friends and key social media influencers to inform how they should vote in Australian elections.
Does the Electoral College encourage candidates to campaign in rural areas, as its supporters claim? And do electors actually filter the ‘passions’ of voters, as the founders wanted them to?
People under 18 can leave school, get a job, drive a car and pay taxes. Should they be allowed to vote too?
If undocumented immigrants choose not to fill out the questionnaire, then the official population of several states would deflate, costing them House seats and federal funding.
With world-first compulsory and preferential voting, Australia was born not on the battlefield but at the ballot box.
American politics has gotten more partisan in the last 50 years. One of the reasons: the closing of local newspapers.
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