Mathematicians have shown that completely fair elections are—in a sense—impossible. No electoral system can guarantee both that local votes translate directly into local seats and that total seat ...

A perfectly ‘fair’ system may therefore be impossible, but the researchers argue that electoral rules can still be designed to balance these competing goals more effectively. Their findings were ...

It's Election Day in the United States! Across the nation, millions of ballots are being cast. But what would happen if the rules of our electoral system were changed? Dan Ullman asks that very ...

To their opponents, it was an indictment of the entire democratic system – because, while Labour had swept to victory and now ...

With less than three weeks before the election, all eyes are on the polls. But there’s a high likelihood the voting results won’t reflect the will of the people, according to Don Saari, a professor of ...