Unions NSW is launching a High Court challenge to election expenditure laws. A recent case from Pennsylvania provides an interesting contrast.
Category: Electoral law
Italian impasse: week 5
Italians prepare to celebrate Easter still without a new government, five weeks after an inconclusive general election.
A Victorian lesson on fixed terms
Last week's political crisis in Victoria illustrates a problem about having fixed-term parliaments in a Westminster system.
Election preview: Malta
Malta, with its familiar yet unusual electoral system, looks like swinging to the left.
Kenya still waits for results
Kenyan vote counting is even slower than expected, and its election authority has come up with a bizarre interpretation of what a "vote" is.
Kenyan results trickle in
Waiting for Kenyan election results is a slow process. To pass the time, you can try to work out when the second round would be held.
To catch a senator
Nick Xenophon is being deported from Malaysia – an occupational hazard for critics of foreign governments. Australia's response so far has been tepid.
Australia gets used to fixed terms
The prime minister's election announcement shows up just how little flexibility she really had about the timing anyway. Australia has moved close to a fixed-term model without even trying.
Lib Dems get their revenge on electoral reform
Britain's Liberal Democrats succeed last night in frustrating a Conservative move for electoral reform – as a measure of revenge for last year's defeat over the House of Lords, but also due to their own self-interest.
Could the Coalition steal Labor’s clothes on optional preferences?
Change in electoral law is generally driven by perceived political interest, not by principle. Shifts to more democratic outcomes happen when a major party thinks that they will work to its advantage.
The World is Not Enough 