Voting refers to the process of choosing officials or policies by casting a ballot, a document used by people to formally express their preferences. Republics...

Following is a list of United States presidential candidates by number of votes received. Elections have tended to have more participation in each successive...

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...

A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative...

Rock the Vote is a nonpartisan non-profit organization in the United States. Through registering new young voters, the group aims to "channel the energy...

Vote early and vote often is a generally tongue-in-cheek phrase used in relation to elections and the voting process. Though rarely considered a serious...

In voting, a ballot is considered spoilt, spoiled, void, null, informal, invalid or stray if a law declares or an election authority determines that it...

Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which the candidates in an electoral district who poll more than any other (that is, receive a plurality)...

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...

purpose of voting for the president and vice president. The process is described in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. The number of electoral votes a state...

Vote Smart, formerly called Project Vote Smart, is an American non-profit, non-partisan research organization that collects and distributes information...

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

up vote in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vote is a formal method of choosing in an election. Vote(s) or The Vote may also refer to: V.O.T.E., an...

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...

instant-runoff voting (IRV), a national popular vote, and universal voter registration. It changed its name to the Center for Voting and Democracy in...

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

preferential voting. The voter ranks the candidates in order of preference, and when the votes are counted, the first preference votes only are counted...

right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political...

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...

Approval voting is a single-winner electoral system in which voters mark all the candidates they support, instead of just choosing one. The candidate with...

A protest vote (also called a blank, null, spoiled, or "none of the above" vote) is a vote cast in an election to demonstrate dissatisfaction with the...

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

In electoral systems, a wasted vote is any vote cast that is not "used" to elect a winner, and so is not represented in the outcome. However, the term...

parties) among voters. The essence of such systems is that all votes cast – or almost all votes cast – contribute to the result and are effectively used to...

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...

national popular vote than another candidate who received more votes, either a majority, more than half the vote, or a plurality of the vote. In the U.S....

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...

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

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

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...