Bengal’s women voted fully conscious of their gender, socio-political existence: Experts

Mamata Banerjee’s persona and increasing awareness led Bengal’s women to vote as independent individuals, experts said

Iowa caucuses did one thing right: Require paper ballots

 Any problems with a paperless election would be impossible to fix, calling into public question the integrity of the whole process, and the …

Kremlin expands online voting possibilities amid COVID-19 fears

The new bill removes federal legal obstacles to expanding distance voting

Simply Put: Voting without voters

Is NOTA the answer to TINA?

The ‘None of the Above’ provision on electoral voting machines is turning out to be a decentralised protest

Secret tales of polling and counting booths: How our democracy works

Spending a day in a polling booth and another 24 hours in a counting centre served as eye-openers on the way Indian democracy works and the …

DTE Coverage: Voting without voters

Down To Earth reports from four states on migrant voters and the upcoming Lok Sabha elections

‘Citizens must not just blame the government but criticise it’

Public policy expert Rajendra Pratap Gupta speaks about his new book

Should electoral ID data be linked to Aadhaar?

Correcting electoral rolls in a society like India’s has to be done the hard way — going door to door. Quick fixes and tech solutions …

Simply Put: Two ‘Democracies’

Money is breaking democracy in Nigeria

As long as money can buy votes, the future of democracy is uncertain  

Notes on how the world’s largest democracy presses the button

While the electronic voting machine system is useful and functional, officials and observers shouldn’t assume there’s no way to …

Voting in the global marketplace

Sustainable public procurement is about governments using their large spending power to send a signal to markets that they are interested in …

Madhya Pradesh village protests for right to vote

There is no village, says collector