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A significant number of people were always going to be disappointed by the result. This is for anyone who wanted to stay.
Receiving votes from the internet is the easy part. Proving that you got the right result, while keeping votes private, is an unsolved problem.
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Despite years of research, nobody knows how to provide evidence of an accurate result while keeping individual e-votes private.
You can’t both win, chaps.
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If the polls are to be believed, the vote could be very close. Here’s why that is such a worrying prospect.
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How will the votes be counted? When will we know the result? Stuart Wilks-Heeg has all the answers.
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Do you see the world as made up of nations? Are you a citizen of a city or a region? These questions could help you on June 23.
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A behavioural psychologists explains how facts fall to the wayside when it comes to how we vote.
Struggling to decide?
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The UK in a Changing EU app lets you choose which issues you feel are most important to you and use those to weight the outcomes.
The best way to ensure your vote contributes as much as it can to the election of senators is to number as many squares as you can.
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Following the Turnbull government’s recent changes, Australia has new rules for electing senators. How will they work in practise?
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A guide to making up your mind on a very important decision.
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They could win it for Remain … if they go to the polls.
On which side is your bread buttered?
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The trend is headed in Leave’s favour.
Australia uses a method known as preferential voting to elect the House of Representatives.
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At federal elections, voters must cast a preference for all candidates in their lower house seat. Failure to do so, or failure to give an ordinal list of preferences, renders the ballot informal.
Voters know when they are being given a ‘sell job’ by politicians.
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Many voters feel completely powerless in the election process and their engagement with democracy; they talk in terms of ‘us’ and ‘them’ and of not being respected by those in power.
According to polling, Nick Xenophon and his team are on track to secure about three Senate spots.
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The Senate reforms and a double-dissolution election means that it is difficult to predict who will be sitting in the upper house after July 2. But you can count on Nick Xenophon being there.
WE GOT THIS.
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When all the evidence points in one direction, people can quite happily go the other. Whether it’s Trump, Brexit or climate change.
Closed to expats of 15 years or more.
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British citizens who have lived outside the UK for 15 years or more won’t have a say.
Lagos bus station. Lessons for Brexit?
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What makes people decide to leave the gang, and how can you convince them to stay?
While there may not be too many voters in swimsuits or shorts at this year’s winter poll, increasing numbers of Australians are voting before election day.
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A growing number of people are pre-polling, or voting before election day. This has significant implications for the parties in terms of rolling out policy and voter engagement.
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Internet polls are offering up quite different results to phone polls. Here are a few suggestions as to why.
Family First senator Bob Day unsuccessfully challenged the government’s changes to the way senators are elected.
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The High Court regarded none of Bob Day’s arguments in his challenge to Senate voting reforms as having any merit.