America is very democratic with elections every two years, with municipal elections in the odd years and presidential elections every four years. With this many opportunities to vote, it might lead to voter fatigue and voters rationalsing that it is only worth voting every four years. Therefore arguably the presidential elections cast a long shadow [...]

The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision yesterday that Indiana’s strict voter ID law is not unconstitutional. Proponents of the law argue that it will discourage voter impersonation fraud–a type of election mischief that has never been documented in Indiana and has only been prosecuted a few times in modern election history. The author [...]

Be heard; vote! 299 Virginia residents drove, walked and bussed to the polls to vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary only to be silenced by Virginia’s election officials.
According to The Times-Dispatch, many polling places in Chesterfield County ran out of ballots so the Chesterfield County’s election officials thought quickly to solve the problem – allow [...]

As the neck-and-neck race for the Democratic nomination moves into snowy Wisconsin tomorrow, party leaders have begun the debate over the role of superdelegates at their August convention in Denver. Superdelegates, nearly a fifth of the total number of delegates at the convention, are elected officials and party leaders who are not bound by the [...]