All 50 states have laws that ban potentially intimidating behavior at polling places. They will need enforcement during the 2022 midterm elections.
An Indiana Senate committee hearing on a GOP proposal to ban nearly all abortions in the state, at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, July 26, 2022.
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Why do government policies sometimes fail to reflect the public will? The answer begins with the design of the US government system, forged in the 18th century.
Ohio GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance won his primary after Trump endorsed him.
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Nigeria’s legislators have no constitutional right to force political parties to adopt direct primaries.
Annamie Paul is photographed before announcing she is officially stepping down as Green Party leader, ahead of a press conference at Suydam Park in Toronto in September 2021.
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Political parties often weather internal storms. There are many Greens in Canada who are hoping the Green Party can do so too after Annamie Paul’s leadership laid bare serious issues in the party.
This year is seeing a high number of absentee and mail-in ballots and voting in the period before Election Day – but early voting periods are not new to the 2020 election.
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, a delegate holds up a copy of the Democratic Party Platform.
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Party platforms are a vital clue about which groups hold real power in the two major national parties, and can help predict what the government will actually do.
Electoral commission officers count votes after the polls were closed during the 2019 General elections.
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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission recently deregistered some political parties, leading to debates over whether this was a step in the right direction.
Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London and Paul Webb, University of Sussex
There seems little chance of getting people to agree on the big picture, but even partisans see eye-to-eye sometimes when you get down to the nitty gritty.
The identity that people choose most often is actually ‘independent’ – not Democratic or Republican.
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Labour’s grassroots members and its leadership look set to clash at its Conference in Brighton. But don’t bet on the members getting Corbyn to back Remain.
The U.K.‘s Tony Blair, left, campaigned on 'modernizing’ the welfare system. Bill Clinton, right, campaigned on reducing welfare in the U.S.
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Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don’t share, writes one historian, is the label ‘liberal.’
A wall graffiti depicting Indian National Congress (INC) party leader Rahul Gandhi (L) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a tug of war over India, Mumbai on April 28, 2019.
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A spatial analysis of India’s election results shows a unique geographical footprint of the BJP vote and how its recent progression follows obvious geographic patterns.
Twenty-two of the 24 Democratic 2020 presidential candidates.
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The number of candidates in presidential primaries has skyrocketed since the 2016 election. Divisions inside political parties and easy ways for candidates to raise money are among the reasons why.