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Guest post by Casey Peters democracy@mail2world.com A dramatic groundswell of discontent with Australian politicians led to the lowest voter turnout in over 75 years at the federal election held September 7, 2013. Not in three-quarters of a century...

Daniel Green, deputy leader of the Green Party, uses Lego to demonstrate the disproportion between a party’s share of the vote and the party’s share of seats in a first-past-the-post system. (From left to right: ranked ballot, proportional representation...

So, Justin Trudeau has cancelled the electoral reform project, dismissing the issue as not important at this time. He has broken the hearts of many interested, proactive, idealistic Canadians who put their faith in his promise, in his vision for a new...

CHARLOTTETOWN — A non-binding plebiscite on electoral reform in Prince Edward Island has shown voters support a switch to a form of proportional representation. Mixed member proportional representation was the most popular option, drawing more than...

With the election promise of our most recent trip to the polls as being the last one to be exercised under the First-Past-the-Post system, questions about just how the government will go about consulting and designing our future voting system have started...