Is money the root of all evil in politics? It’s easy to see a correlation between winning and fundraising – money flows to likely winners and competitive races. But correlation is not causation.
Latinos make up 12 percent of all registered voters in the US, but less than half vote regularly.
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Latinos are less likely than other Americans to vote in November, new polling shows. Here’s why Democrats shouldn’t expect a Latino blue wave to swing the midterms in their favor.
Election workers unload a bag of ballots brought in a from a polling precinct to the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters office in Sacramento, California.
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There are different ballots, voting machines, registration and eligibility requirements and procedures for counting votes across the country. That’s a recipe for occasional confusion and miscounts.
In Texas, Republicans like Cruz (left) are starting to feel the heat from Democrats.
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Policymaking is no longer based solely on what a party stands for. Now, it also matters how a decision is going to play in the opinion polls – and that’s a problem for our political system.
A pop-up newsroom debunking facts and proposing real time fact-checking can change how media publish stories during specific events such as elections.
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Monitoring the spread of mis-information and dis-information during the Swedish national elections by a group of scholars and journalist could set a precedent elsewhere.
How confident should voters be that their ballots will be counted accurately?
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Ensuring the integrity of democratic elections from hackers and electronic tampering, and boosting public confidence in democracy, isn’t very difficult, nor expensive.
Lies can help a political campaign be successful.
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While Donald Trump’s election may seem to US voters to present unprecedented questions of legitimacy, such questions were first asked more than a century ago, in an election that turned on bicycles.
Since independence in 1960, Madagascar has experienced a handful of political crises.
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The mayor of Tallahassee underspent three rivals to win the state’s Democratic primary. But what awaits in the general election?
Prime Minister-elect Scott Morrison would be mistaken if he believed his party’s salvation lay in a further lurch to the right in pursuit of an ill-defined “base”.
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The messy and violent aftermath of Zimbabwe’s recent elections met with only muted international criticism.
Sandiaga Uno (left) will compete with Ma'ruf Amin for vice presidential seat in the 2010 election.
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Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta; Arya Fernandes, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia; Ella S. Prihatini, The University of Western Australia e Nyarwi Ahmad, Universitas Gadjah Mada
We asked experts to explain what’s behind the last minute decisions for vice presidential candidates in the next election.
Will 12 Russians indicted for hacking the 2016 US election ever come to trial? They may not, but the indictments themselves are an important step in the effort to determine the truth of what happened.