The 2016 election made clear that the Electoral College does not weigh votes from all states equally. A new analysis suggests the power of your vote is closely linked to voter turnout in your state.
Elections worldwide are becoming increasingly dependent on technology. But, typically, the electronic systems adopted suffer from weak transparency and scrutiny even when the outcome is challenged.
In this year’s election, the system of majority voting didn’t allow voters to express their opinions adequately. If they had, the choice would have been between Kasich and Sanders.
Kate Johnson, University of Southern California and Joe Hoover, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
While research has long suggested that we like others who are like us, a new study offers insight into how we choose to support those who share our views of ‘moral purity.’ It may explain how we voted.
Where problems arose, voting was generally able to keep going smoothly. But those failures serve as a warning of how bad things could get if we don’t replace our voting machines soon.
Unlike other issues, climate change has broad support among millennials across political parties and races. But it’s unclear that they’ll convert that into political activism.