Different voting systems allow each voter to cast a different number of votes - only one (single voting as in First-past-the-post voting, Single non-transferable...

where each voter casts just one vote in a multi-seat district is known as single non-transferable voting. Plurality voting is widely used throughout the...

and most nations use 18 as their voting age, but for other countries voting age ranges between 16 and 21. Voting age may therefore coincide with a country's...

Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election....

Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots including voting time. Depending on...

Runoff voting can refer to: Sequential-loser methods based on plurality voting: Two-round system, a voting system where only the top two candidates from...

Preferential voting or preference voting (PV) may refer to different election systems or groups of election systems: Any electoral system which allows...

Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters' orderings (rankings) of candidates to choose a single winner or multiple winners. More formally, a...

electronic voting machines. Traditionally, a voting machine has been defined by its mechanism, and whether the system tallies votes at each voting location...

Voting interest (or voting power) in business and accounting means the total number, or percent, of votes entitled to be cast on the issue at the time...

Score voting, sometimes called range voting, is an electoral system for single-seat elections. Voters give each candidate a numerical score, and the candidate...

Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's...

Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in...

Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled...

Limited voting (also known as partial block voting) is a voting system in which electors have fewer votes than there are positions available. The positions...

Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting (PV), or the alternative vote (AV), is a multi-round elimination...

Vote swapping, also called co-voting or vote pairing, occurs when a voter in one district agrees to vote tactically for a less-preferred candidate or party...

to FairVote in 2004. Since 2018, FairVote has also conducted campaigns to oppose alternative voting reforms, including approval and STAR voting. In 2024...

increased: 1852 – Women lost the right to vote, and the minimum voting age was specified as 20. 1864 – Voting was restricted on the basis of new qualifications—literacy...

ranked-choice voting and primary elections. One study showed that approval would not have chosen the same two winners as plurality voting (Chirac and Le...

Weighted voting refers to voting rules that grant some voters a greater influence than others (which contrasts with rules that assign every voter an equal...

voting, have been diverse, including cutting corporate revenues, removal of key executives, and reputational damage. The modern idea of dollar voting...

engage in plumping). Cumulative voting can also be thought of as a form of cardinal voting: a variant on score voting where the total scores for each...

each of these groups votes en bloc in elections. Bloc voting in the United States is particularly cohesive among Orthodox Jews. Voting blocs can be defined...

a reference to voting early on polling day or early in the electoral process and not a reference to the formal process of early voting (which at the time...

score runoff voting (SRV). The runoff step was introduced in order to reduce strategic incentives in ordinary score voting, such as bullet voting and tactical...

"receiving the most votes" and can therefore be confused with plurality. Plurality voting system Plurality-at-large voting Plurality opinion Voting system For...

where the voting system allows for the selection of multiple winners at once. Block voting falls under the multiple non-transferable vote category, a...

Electronic voting by country varies and may include voting machines in polling places, centralized tallying of paper ballots, and internet voting. Many countries...

transferable vote (STV), a type of proportional ranked choice voting, is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form...