(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” plurality voting system – also called winner-take-all – used to elect nearly all of the 520,000 government officials in the United States.

President Trump won more than half of foreign-born Hispanic voters in the 2024 election and still would’ve beat former Vice President Kamala Harris had every eligible voter turned out to the polls, an analysis of his landslide victory concluded Thursday.

A new analysis of voting patterns in the last election suggests that the party is woefully unprepared for the path forward. A campaign sign for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz outside a polling location in 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. Any forward pivot in ...

New analysis of UK news reporting during the 2024 General Election has revealed that media coverage did not reflect with the way the public actually voted or the issues they cared about most.

With a growing number of American voters identifying as politically independent, many pollsters, most members of the media and the campaigns themselves viewed the independent vote as crucial to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. According to ...

Every fall, as leaves start to turn and pumpkin spice makes its annual comeback, my office inside the Charleston County Elections and Registration headquarters transforms into something that looks less like a government agency and more like a command ...