voting systems require different levels of support to be elected. Plurality voting (First-past-the-post voting) elects the candidate with more votes than...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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) (US: ranked-choice voting or RCV, AU: preferential voting, UK: alternative vote), is a single-winner, multi-round elimination...

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