Are these people’s votes accurately recorded and properly counted?
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Around the world, elections are under attack. U.S. officials could learn from other countries about how to ensure everyone’s vote is recorded and counted accurately.
The ‘United We Roll’ convoy of semi-trucks travels the highway near Red Deer, Alta., in February 2019 en route to Ottawa to protest what it called a lack of support for the energy sector and stalled pipelines.
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Determining whether Canadians are gaining or losing confidence in democracy depends in part on which region one is examining. Contrasting trends in Alberta and Québec provide clues.
Counting underway in Herat, Afghanistan.
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Why Afghanistan is still waiting to hear who its next president will be – nearly four months after the election.
People have different reasons for not showing up on Election Day.
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In the 2016 election, more than a third of Americans didn’t vote. What might be keeping them from going to the polls?
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders shake hands before the debate on Jan. 14.
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At the Jan. 14 debate, held at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, six candidates clashed on jobs, Iran and more.
The simple dice can provide an introduction to statistics.
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Wages, starlight and polls can all be interpreted using statistics. While probabilities, medians and noise can be challenging, a simple dice can provide insights into statistics.
Senator Huey Long at the Capitol in 1935.
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The very first scientific horse race poll, which took place 85 years ago, was shrouded in secrecy and may have changed history – even though it was faulty.
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Only 2% of children have the skills needed to identify a credible news story.
The first female president of Mauritius, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, at the Budapest Water Summit in 2016. She left office in 2018.
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In Mauritius there’s been little change in cultural norms and values to genuinely support gender egalitarianism.
Kamala Harris’ campaign fizzled as her past as a prosecutor haunted her candidacy.
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More and more district attorney candidates are running on reversing the government’s traditional approach to crime and punishment. And they’re winning.
University students have different motivations for their social media use.
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Political actors can actively engage with university students by taking cognisance
of their political information needs
How much of what they are telling you is true and how much is spin?
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Factchecking became politicised during UK election campaign. But what does it really add to public awareness?
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From Brexit and Labour’s future to Britain’s new political battlegrounds, here’s the expert lowdown on what Boris Johnson’s predicted landslide win means.
It’s fair to say the British public is not thrilled to be back at the polls.
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Citizens are voting in 650 constituencies – but technically not for who they want to be prime minister.
And the crowd says…
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Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.
Efforts to mitigate the double edged nature of social media in politics must take into account local information environments
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 election.
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Hillary Clinton got the most individual votes from US citizens in 2016, but Donald Trump won the most electoral votes.
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It’s not all about the cost of treatment – and this is something the next government will need to address.
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The British electorate is volatile but one party has to benefit more than the others for that to actually affect the outcome.
Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Prime Minister, Republic of Mauritius.
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Mauritius’ “dynastic politics” does not augur well for the often celebrated image of Mauritius as Africa’s shining democratic model.