Does Mormon Matter?
What can measuring ideology and its effect on Congress tell you about a would-be President Mitt Romney?
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Spotting Election Fraud Gets Smarter, Cheaper
A push from USAID to cut costs and develop better solutions to international problems produces a more effective way to monitor elections.
Overseas Troops Finally Get Fair Shot at Voting
After decades of obstacles hindering the voting process, new laws will allow overseas and military voters to submit their votes in time for the 2012 election.
Supreme Court Calls For New Try on Texas Districts
Texas Republicans won Friday as the Supreme Court rejected a judicially drawn redistricting map, but not for the reasons you might think.
Should We Buy Options on Presidential Candidates?
For decades, academics have been running a lively prediction market in political aspirations. But now commodities traders have proposed actually selling options on presidential candidates.
Brams: Use Approval Voting in Presidential Primaries
Steven J. Brams says approval voting, in which voters can vote for more than one candidate, is a better way to conduct multiple candidate elections.
Righting the Voting Income Gap
The “motor voter” law, an almost decade-old federal effort to encourage voter registration among Americans receiving public assistance, is bearing fruit.
Scandals Do Drive Voters — When Abuse of Power Is Involved
New research finds financial scandals hurt politicians more than moral ones, and the public particularly frowns on abuses of power.
Studying Flags, Pins, Hope From 2008 Election
The Stars and Stripes are subliminal, class cleavages are overrated, and other academic analyses we should consider from the last election.
Can Obama Keep His Technology Edge in 2012?
The Obama campaign's adept use of technology in the 2008 election created not a permanent edge but a permanent path for others to follow, suggest two professors.