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Elon Musk’s America Party will eventually go the same way as No Labels and the Forward Party if it follows the same failed ...
Protect Democracy’s Ben Raderstorf and FairVote’s Mike Parsons have written this piece on the lessons that today’s reformers can learn from the wave of electoral systems reform that swept through ...
The United States is unique among world democracies. It is the only country where a democratically elected leader is elected indirectly through a mechanism known as the Electoral College. Although the ...
The Labour Party is currently both the Government and the opposition in the Westminster Parliament. They were not tears shed over his biggest political failure, nor over the cold support given by ...
In today’s digital age, electronic voting systems are at the forefront of advancing democratic practices. This study delves into the use of the Paillier algorithm’s Partial Homomorphic Encryption (PHE ...
The term electoral system can refer to the method by which elections are conducted (e.g., whether officials are elected in single-winner versus multi-winner systems) or the method by which votes are ...
A majority in parliament has declared the regulated cannabis experiment and the new election system too controversial for the fallen Schoof I Cabinet to deal with. Bills and regulations on these ...
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), the umbrella body of all registered political parties in Nigeria, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to urgently address ...
Given that they got just four seats in the Commons – instead of the 41 that their share of the vote might have earned them in a perfectly proportional (PR) system – it will come as no surprise ...
The findings of a new survey also show there is a clear appetite for electoral reform, with a record number backing changes to allow smaller political parties “to get a fairer share of MPs ...
The electoral commission’s next leadership must build on reforms and confront long-standing systemic weaknesses. Failure to act now will ultimately unravel the democratic system.