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disenfranchising voters occurs primarily among minorities, and has included everything from intimidation to poll taxes, and more currently, voter IDs and delays...

is submitted to the voters, similar to a referendum as noted above. If the proposition is approved by more than 50% of all voters who vote, it becomes...

to prevent voter fraud, they are in effect making it harder for individuals to cast their vote. The theory of rational ignorance says voters will recognize...

the two voters just considered. If we conduct the election as just described then after the cancellation of as many opposite pairs of voters as possible...

voter turnout. Voters did turn to Internet voting, but these voters consisted primarily of those who would have voted anyways rather than new voters....

global voter turnout has dropped slowly but consistently in recent years. Figure 1 plots average voter turnout, as a percentage of registered voters, in...

secrecy, bribing or blackmailing voters became common. It was to prevent businessmen or politicians from thus coercing voters that the secret ballot was introduced...

Phillips, analysing 1948-1968 voting trends, viewed these rebellious Southern voters as ripe for Republican picking. In The Emerging Republican Majority (Arlington...

square mile. While many point out the "purple" mixtures of heterogeneous voters, it is clear that there are vast areas of America differentiated by vote...

primarily from black voters, a particular electoral system may give it the incentive to appeal also to white, or other, voters. Thus, the party’s policy...

Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000) was approved by 61% of voters, requiring that "first and second-offense drug violators be sent to drug...

the majority of voters, it is difficult to view him as moderate. As he is proud to publicly admit, Mitt Romney is a devout Mormon. Voters questioned whether...

help McCain gain success among women voters, but she actually proved to be less influential with female voters. According to the Center of American Women...

voters. However, when interest groups and bureaucracies have so much power these organizations can make changes against the interests of the voters....

very little about how voters actually decide. If voters give greater relative weight to the individual than to the party, many voters who vote for a specific...

inclusive and innovative voter registration system, OSCE subsequently launched a multi-lingual website for potential voters around the world to register...

Electoral Commission (IEC) in 1997 and became responsible for registration of voters and conduct of elections and referendums. In late 2001 and early 2002, The...

the Act was signed into law and after it was mostly upheld by the Supreme Court, a 2015 Kaiser Foundation poll found that 43% of likely voters viewed it...

In the 2008 general election, the majority (52%) of California voters chose 'YES' on what was known as Proposition 1A, giving the green light go ahead...

few residents. The rotten borough of Old Sarum, for instance, had seven voters, but could elect two MPs. An even more extreme example is of Dunwich, which...