The Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against a Georgia and Tennessee county alleging that their election processes ...

Maine Republicans are renewing a push to repeal the state's ranked choice voting law, arguing that the method of deciding ...

American democracy is going through turbulent times. The causes behind the country’s turmoil are many, but one important factor is the single-member district plurality system used for electing members ...

These three bills aim to rein in local government spending and are tied to the Republican-led idea that local governments, not the state, are largely to blame for the skyrocketing ...

The ruling Progressive National Party (PNP) was re-elected to government on Friday after voters gave the 75-year-old Premier Washington Misick another term as the head of government in Turks and ...

After a whirlwind 2024 election filled with twists and turns, Donald Trump has once again taken the presidency. But as the ...

The Independent Center released the second and third installments to its 2025 State of the Union Poll, one of which compared and contrasted the views of independent voters and Republicans and the ...

Methods for tallying votes to determine a primary election's outcome include plurality counts and majority counts. Forty-one states require that a candidate receive a plurality of all votes cast in ...

A first-past-the-post voting system, in which a party can win a seat even if most voters disapprove of it, creates conditions ...

Nate Atkinson and Ezra Friedman have posted this paper on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Should states retain plurality rule or adopt a different voting method? We study the class of sequential plurality ...

Thanks to a local ballot initiative approved by voters, the city began using an approval voting system, which allows voters to select all of the candidates they approve of in a given race.

A new electoral system in Canada could help curb polarization, ensure fairer representation and transform Canadian democracy for the better.