This upcoming 2022 federal election should be the last election to exclude 16 and 17-year-olds
Articles on Voting
Displaying 161 - 180 of 478 articles
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.
How well people exercise their agency will determine the severity of global warming – and its consequences.
Electoral malpractice can be justified by some as preventing a greater injustice to the individual, community or nation.
Alabama will be allowed to keep a congressional map that critics say disadvantages Black voters. That does not bode well for 2022 midterms, argues a law scholar.
Concerned about problems in counting Electoral College votes that determine the next president, lawmakers are considering changes to the Electoral Count Act. What is the act, and what’s wrong with it?
Voting rights are the subject of intense conflict between Democrats and Republicans. Does the degree of political outrage match the threat to voting rights?
The South African electorate is becoming less tied to race and identity-based voting but are increasingly making a wider evaluation of the performance of political incumbents.
The final days of parliament for 2021 have been marked by a spate of floor crossings. But it may not be as ‘shambolic’ as it seems.
The Morrison government has recently proposed the requirement for registered voters to show ID prior to casting their vote at the polling booth on election day. potentially further disenfranchise vulnerable people of society who don’t have access to the ID documents required, particularly First Nations people
Minneapolis residents voted 56% to 44% against an amendment that would have transformed the city’s police. The reasons they did so are complicated, an expert writes.
Indigenous people who vote are reminding Canada of the nation-to-nation relationships that continue to exist and to bring change from within the very structure that has been used to erase them.
Taking just one political science class makes college students more likely to show up at the polls, two researchers find.
New research offers a new electoral system that can deliver proportionality and even enhance local representation.
There is no easy path to power for any political party without the support of women. Has the CPC narrowed the gender gap with Liberals this election? It’s unlikely.
It’s not convincing to argue that the political parties would not be able to campaign as they have done in the past.
Not all new laws labeled “voter suppression laws” are, in fact, voter suppression laws. An election law expert takes a closer look.
It may be new to Americans, but ranked-choice voting has a long history, and it is spreading rapidly across the U.S.
Research shows shared traumas drive political preferences in certain directions.
Are the election law changes proposed in statehouses across the country really as bad as some say? An election law scholar cuts through the yelling to take a sober look at the new voting landscape.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
-
Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
-
Professor of Politics, Adelaide University
-
Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
-
Professor of Political Science, Newcastle University
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
-
Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
-
Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
-
Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
-
Senior Lecturer in Politics, York St John University
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
-
Research Fellow (Henry Jackson Society - Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism), Royal Holloway, University of London
-
Doctoral Candidate, Australian National University
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Dayton