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New research examines how recent federal elections would have been affected if optional preferential voting had been used. The results were not favourable to Labor.
The Iowa caucuses have been criticised for being unrepresentative. But there are good reasons for small states to go first in the US primary process.
Thanks to preferential voting, Australian House of Representatives members are each elected by an absolute majority of the voters in the electorate they represent.
With world-first compulsory and preferential voting, Australia was born not on the battlefield but at the ballot box.
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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