Council of the European Union to adopt EU legislation. Qualified majority is the voting system most frequently used in the Council, with about 80% of all EU legislation adopted through it. This is ...

When you reach the ballot box on election day, you vote for the people. When the votes are tallied up, they are tallied by party.

Team Mirai, a political party founded by software engineers, won 11 seats in Japan’s legislature by promising chatbots, self-driving buses and high-tech jobs.

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name.

Attend some meetings, see if it’s a good fit for you, talk to people. Some boards have associate members, so there is less ...

Democrats are playing catch-up in having online influencers and content creators promote their candidates and priorities.

Abstract: We present BlockVote, a blockchain-based electronic voting system that integrates multimodal biometric authentication to enhance voter verification, transparency, and end-to-end auditability ...

Democracy feels intuitive, fair, and rational, yet mathematics tells a far more troubling story. In the mid-20th century, a formal proof showed that no voting system can fairly translate individual ...

Say what you want about Alaska, but an even worse sore spot for me is the disaster that ensued with Georgia’s special election in 2020, when Republican Sen. David Perdue won more votes than Democrat ...

Passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act will not save the Republican Party from losing the House of Representatives in 2026, as President Donald Trump claims. But it is a reasonable ...

Michigan’s elections officials — including Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson — insist the state’s voting system is secure. But enough irregularities exist to justify a formal, transparent audit of the ...

Every player on a Super Bowl-winning team gets a share of the credit for winning the championship, but only one can be the big game's Most Valuable Player. Who will that be this year?