Annabel Crabb explains the basics of preferential voting, why Australia's electoral system is so robust and how The Franchise Act excluded First Nations people for over six decades.

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 ...

In 2009 -- when the academy went to 10 Best Picture nominees for the first time since 1943 -- the preferential system of voting, which had been used from 1934 to 1945, was reintroduced. The academy ...

Voters in several states last week delivered a stinging rebuke to ranked choice voting, clouding the future of an idea that had seen strong momentum in recent years. Ranked choice voting, which allows ...

Through the opaque workings of Queensland’s compulsory preferential voting system, it is thanks to the preferences of the Queensland Socialists that Labor held on by the skin of its teeth in the ...