We’ve got many, many questions about what all goes into the Academy Awards. Not least of which, how exactly does best picture get decided? For the last 15 years, the 10,000-plus members of the Academy ...

Now that the final round of Oscar voting is over, it is a good time for a refresher course in how the winner will be decided. Don't worry, it is nowhere near as complicated as the nominations ...

For the last 15 years, the 10,000-plus members of the Academy have cast their votes with what is known as the “preferential ballot.” The ranked voting system aims to level the playing field among best ...

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But while preferential voting solves this vote-splitting problem, when used in combination with single-member electorates, it nevertheless creates a mechanism that reinforces the two-party duopoly on ...

Ranked voting, also known as ranked-choice voting or preferential voting, is an electoral system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. This system has gained traction around the ...

American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the ...

STORY: This Saturday, millions of young voters will cast their vote, many for the first time, in Australia’s general election. The way they vote will be critical: Millennials and Generation Z voters ...

Following a year of electoral upsets within the Georgetown University Student Association, GUSA’s much-needed Election Reform Task Force had plenty of fodder for its report presented at the GUSA ...