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Even marginal seats are really only contests between two parties. No wonder voters don’t feel enthusiastic.
It is too simplistic to say that the use of AI in elections is all good or all bad. The truth is that it can be both.
The 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned 50 years of abortion rights is affecting where young people choose to go to college, to work and to live, as well as the way they vote.
Does a poll lead increase your poll lead? The science of bandwagon effects explained.
Spending a lot on elections isn’t a bad thing in itself. But when voter confidence is so low, there should be complete transparency around the costs involved.
Increasingly, the media, pollsters and pundits are focusing on independent voters and their effects on election outcomes.
People are generally more prone to activating the parts of their brain associated with fear than those linked to rational decision making.
The electoral register is incomplete, especially when it comes to young people.
Canadians should watch events in Alberta very carefully because voter ID laws are often the first step of many in restricting the voting rights of eligible citizens. They spread and escalate quickly.
What counts as fast for a court is slow for the rest of the world, and judges can give contradictory or vague rulings that delay final decisions into the future.
The Independent Electoral Commission cannot afford to put a foot wrong in the country’s most important election since democracy in 1994, on 29 May.
Fighting for voter access is an inevitable part of any democracy, from ancient Rome to the US today. Roman legislators were able to thwart elite political sway by introducing written ballots.
Organizers of the protest had set a goal of 11,000 uncommitted votes to show dissatisfaction with Biden’s support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war.
Scientists estimate that for every 100,000 people targeted with specific political ads, several thousand can be persuaded.
This is what it takes to organise the largest and most complex single-day election on the planet.
The PTI, the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, won the most seats of any one party – but fell short of reaching the threshold for a majority government.
AI is likely to be used to help us run elections in the near future but there are risks as well as reward.
Most studies suggests that fake news is more likely to enhance existing beliefs and views rather than radically change voting intentions of those who are undecided.
A battle over the voting districts in Detroit has landed in the Supreme Court, but any ruling may come too late for 2024 state elections.
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