Voters fill out Super Tuesday ballots in North Carolina.
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African American voters are indispensable to any Democrat strategy. Given party affiliation is increasingly split down racial lines, is the best tactic to get out the black, anti-Trump vote?
Voting machine operator David Schaefer, right, helps voter Kaitron Gordon with her ballot on Tennessee’s Super Tuesday primary in Nashville after deadly overnight tornadoes delayed the start of voting.
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As the race for the Democratic nomination narrows to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, what does it all mean for November? We asked three scholars to closely analyze the Super Tuesday results.
Prime minister Boris Johnson with his new intake MPs.
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Participants were asked to choose between white and ethnic minority candidates.
Paper ballots – the key to reconstructing what happened in Iowa.
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With electronic voting and vote-counting machines susceptible to hacking, paper ballots ensure recounts are possible – and accurate.
A “very small section’ of the Census Bureau, sometime between 1910 and 1930.
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The results of the 1920 census kicked off a bitter, decadelong political squabble. Could the same happen again in 2020?
President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House on Iran’s ballistic missile strike against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops.
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In recent years, voters have shifted their views on issues based upon the positions of politicians – even when that shift clashes with their ideology.
The identity that people choose most often is actually ‘independent’ – not Democratic or Republican.
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The true number of people who do not favor either of the two major political parties in the US has actually remained stable in recent years.
A suffrage parade.
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In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.
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?
Australian voters check in and cast their ballots in a September 2019 federal election.
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Many of the problems the US has with its election processes and outcomes are avoidable and don’t happen in countries with different voting laws. Australia is a great example.
Before an election the media closely follows polls.
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If you want to understand the American public, don’t look at national poll numbers.
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.
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Young people have registered to vote in record numbers. Here are three things every young person can do to change the election.
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Britain is once again going to the polls and encouraging people to vote may be as important as asking them to vote for a particular party.
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To justify a push towards requiring ID to vote, some paint a picture of chaos and deception that is very far from reality.
Definitely going to ‘get Brexit done’ this time?
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Research from around the world shows that UK leaders are actually better at putting their pledges into action when they win office than voters think.
‘That’s the wrong end, prime minister.’
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Every vote counts in one way or another, even if you live in a safe seat – here’s why.
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The deadline to register to vote in the 2019 election is November 26. It’s easy and important.
Slogans and soundbites are a key feature of Ghanaian political campaigns.
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Considering the competitive nature of party politics in Ghana, campaign
strategies that evoke emotion and prepare voters remain one of the priorities of political parties.
A lawsuit alleges that the way Mississippi will elect its governor on Tuesday is racist.
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A Mississippi law that allegedly makes it ‘more difficult for African-
American-preferred candidates to win elections’ will still be in place when voters choose a new governor Tuesday.