Paramount to our democracy is a ballot system that works and can be trusted by voters. That’s why the problems with Rensselaer County’s November election ballots are deeply troubling. The county’s ...

A mathematical deep dive into voting systems reveals why no democratic method can satisfy all basic rules of fairness at once, a discovery formalized in a Nobel Prize–winning theorem that still shapes ...

A campaign for a 2026 ballot measure to overhaul Michigan elections by allowing voters to rank their preferred candidate in order of preference has halted its signature collection efforts. "Rank MI ...

Six voting systems Louisiana displayed for public testing this summer have been certified to advance to the state’s bidding process, Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced Thursday. Just one of ...

Richard Wiens is the Deputy Ideas Editor for Civil Beat. You can reach him by email at rwiens@civilbeat.org. Most states have them, and some lawmakers argue it would improve transparency and jolt some ...

(THE CONVERSATION) American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation’s founding. Chief among them is the “pick one” ...

ALBANY — New York’s highest court has rejected an effort by the town of Newburgh to strike down a key section of the state’s voting rights law, which will allow a lawsuit that accuses the town of ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Supporters of Hawaii’s mail-in voting system rallied at the Hawaii State Capitol Thursday to keep the system in place. State lawmakers and community advocates came together ...