A total of eighty-five seats in the Maldivian parliament are set to be decided when voters head to the polling precincts on March 22. This is only the second such elections in the Maldives after 2009 when the country held its first-ever multi-party polls to elect representatives to its unicameral legislature known as the People’s Majilis ...
As campaign officially ends today, the stage is set for Ecuadorians to head to the polls this coming Sunday for the 2014 sectional elections. Ecuador’s voter roll currently has 11,682,314 registered voters. They will be choosing: 23 Prefects 23 Vice prefects 221 Mayors 867 Urban council seats 438 Rural council seats 4.079 Members of Parish Boards An estimated 137 million dollars will be ...
Egypt will hold a referendum on its amended 2012 constitution over two days on 14 and 15 January, 2014. Voters will be asked if they approve of the draft constitution – complete with all the changes that have been made in the last year. A committee of ten legal experts began to amend the constitution in 2013. ...
During the 6th International Electoral Affairs Symposium 2013, Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison, representing the International Center for Electoral Psychology (ICEP), presented a breakthrough approach to election administration. Using the lenses of Electoral Ergonomics, the researchers demonstrated a psychological viewpoint of voting which adds even more complexities to the art of election administration. Electoral Ergonomics is defined ...
Among the various forms of government, democracy is arguably the most desirable as it is the least repressive, least prone to abuse, and is ostensibly the freest. Conventional thought places Greece as the birthplace of democracy. It therefore comes as a surprise for many that the earliest manifestations of democratic principles have been observed in such ...
Is the US electoral college violating a time-honored principle? For  people  with only a passing knowledge of US elections, the whole idea of an electoral college is a source of puzzlement.  How in the world is it possible for a candidate who loses in the popular vote to still win the presidency?  Why is it that ...