Election
Summary
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.The universal use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens. Elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are not in place, or improving the fairness or effectiveness of existing systems.
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The Washington Post updates its 'Politics' iPad app as it seeks to make app relevant to users after the election
One thing newspapers have never had to deal with in print is the issue of shelf-life.
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Nate Silver’s Biggest Critic Blames Botched Prediction, Romney’s Loss On Hurricane Sandy
Did he come within a storm of the presidency? (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife).
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Poll: How Will You Get U.S. Election Results?
Who can pay attention to one form of media anymore? Sit and watch TV without a mobile device in your lap? Unthinkable. Watch a presidential debate without Twitter? No way. Every big live event seems to be better with a back channel to discuss with friends and strangers online. So what's your plan for Election Day? Will you watch the results on TV with friends? Listen on the radio? Follow social media like Twitter and Facebook? Vote in our poll (you can obviously pick multiple entries), and explain your process in the comments below.
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What journalists need to know & explain about the Electoral College
Three times in United States history, the person who became president did not receive the majority of popular votes — 1824, 1876, 2000.
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Covering Occupy and the Tea Party
With the nation’s political media gripped by electoral fever in the run up to the presidential election, perhaps now is a good moment to pause and note that two of the most important forces that have shaped American political discourse over the last four years have been not parties or candidates, but political movements that emerged from outside the political.
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Tale of the tape ... so far
WEBUYYOURKIDS In two months, Americans will elect a president and determine who controls Congress. We’ve been tracking the coverage of these campaigns on CJR. org since late last fall through our Swing States Project, with a team of correspondents monitoring the work of political reporters in both the national press and electoral battlegrounds around.
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A vote for universal registration
I recently visited Russia, where a mild-mannered historian from the city of Astrakhan, Oleg Shein, is on a hunger strike protesting a stolen mayoral election he believes he won. But as Russia starves for free and fair elections, Republicans across the United States are starving our democracy — and too few have noticed.
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Obama tailors election-year message to working women
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, leading in the polls among women voters, said on Friday he wants to help working women fight discrimination and juggle the demands of motherhood but stopped short of making promises on gender equality if he wins re-election. At a White House event on women and the economy, Obama noted "there has been a lot of talk about women and women's issues lately," a nod to the emergence of contraceptive rights, working women and all-male establishments as heated issues in his race for re-election in November.
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Obama v. SCOTUS
“I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. ”.
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Jay Mandle: Learning From the Tea Party
Looking at the role the Tea Party movement plays in the Republican presidential nominating process, it is hard not to be envious. In contrast to the Right's clout in the GOP, the Tea Party's progressive counterpart -- Occupy Wall Street (OWS) -- possesses almost no influence among Democrats. The right-wing social movement has been able to leverage a very real change in the political landscape.
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