In Mississippi, 38 percent of residents are Black yet there are no Black statewide elected officials. The last time a Black ...

Students of St Anthony’s Roman Catholic School, located at Nii Boi Town, have elected new leaders to assist the teaching and ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Voting was peaceful in Nepal's first nationwide election Thursday since a violent, youth-led uprising ...

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In 1951, economist Kenneth Arrow proved that no ranked voting system with three or more candidates can satisfy five basic principles of fairness at the same time — a discovery that earned him the 1972 ...

In Spring 2025, Change Party received almost one-third of the votes for the eight senators from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They got, however, zero seats. With only around 64% of the ...

A group of Black residents is proposing a charter amendment to change the Columbus city council election system. The current system allows all city voters to vote in every district race, not just ...

With the midterm elections just months away, President Donald Trump has been telegraphing his intent to dominate on election night, despite not personally being on the ballot. Whether threatening that ...

Palm Beach County voters may have longer wait times for early voting in the August primary and November general election because of an obscure legislative provision that could sideline a voting system ...

HOUSTON – Harris County faces a lawsuit claiming its current voting system is not accessible for people with disabilities, especially those with reading and writing challenges. The plaintiffs say ...

Jennifer Lynn McCoy receives funding from the Carnegie Corporation for an Andrew Carnegie fellowship on depolarization as well as the Institute for Humane Studies.. She is Regent's Professor of ...

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 ...