A digital tool to help citizens know the candidates better has been developed for Nigeria’s 2023 elections.
Protesters who support Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro storm the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, on Jan. 8, 2023.
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The chaos in Brazil’s capital, along with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in the US, demonstrate that there is a key human factor in election integrity.
Mail-in ballots for the California recall election are processed in Pomona, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2021.
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Thirty-six states have adopted new voting laws since the 2020 election. But it’s not yet clear if these laws will actually affect voter turnout in the 2022 midterms.
Absentee ballots for the New York City mayoral primary, which used ranked-choice voting, are counted.
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Steven Heilman, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Mathematically speaking, the Electoral College is built to virtually ensure narrow victories, making it very susceptible to manipulation and disinformation.
Voters in line for Illinois primary election ballots keep their distance on March 17.
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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.
Is the voting booth a stumbling block?
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Randomly selecting citizens to take turns governing offers the promise of reinvigorating struggling democracies, making them more responsive to citizen needs and preferences.
Testing a new voting machine is a good start.
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Where problems arose, voting was generally able to keep going smoothly. But those failures serve as a warning of how bad things could get if we don’t replace our voting machines soon.
Your vote is not insignificant in the bigger scheme of things. It matters.
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There’s something about seeing the ballot process take place – the vote, the count – that inspires confidence. That wouldn’t be the same with any electronic voting system.
Australia continues to enjoy voter turnout levels that are the envy of voluntary-voting regimes the world over.
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At federal elections, voters must cast a preference for all candidates in their lower house seat. Failure to do so, or failure to give an ordinal list of preferences, renders the ballot informal.
While there may not be too many voters in swimsuits or shorts at this year’s winter poll, increasing numbers of Australians are voting before election day.
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A growing number of people are pre-polling, or voting before election day. This has significant implications for the parties in terms of rolling out policy and voter engagement.
Family First senator Bob Day unsuccessfully challenged the government’s changes to the way senators are elected.
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Two mathematicians explain why majority voting often fails to elect the candidate preferred by the majority and propose an alternative, ‘majority judgment.’
The way Queenslanders vote and the number of MPs they’ll have to elect have both suddenly changed, after a dramatic night in parliament.
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An “appalling” return to “the bad old days of Queensland politics” – why political analysts are so concerned about the shock overhaul of voting and the number of MPs in Queensland.
A line snakes down the sidewalk at Western High School in Las Vegas during the Nevada Republican presidential caucus.
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