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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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 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...

extension of the right to vote (suffrage) to non-citizens. This right varies widely by place in terms of which non-citizens are allowed to vote and in which elections...

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

franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages...

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...

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...

Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever...

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

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...

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

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...

The positions are awarded to the candidates who receive the most votes. In the special case in which the voter may vote for only one candidate and there...