Australia's Electoral Commission thought the ACT's e-voting system would be secure so long as its encryption key remained private, but a researcher has found this is not the case.

If you've grown up thinking that Situation Normal is something like the Australian Electoral Commission — an independent electoral authority which operates our voter roll to standard and ...

Australia's voting system is by proportional representation, where a candidate who gets 40 percent of the vote could still lose to one with 35 percent once preferences from other parties are ...

Of course, the continuation of compulsory voting is a matter for the Australian people and the Australian parliament. Having said that, it’s interesting to note the measure retains very wide ...

ShutterstockAs you head to your local polling place this Saturday, or cast your ballot in an early vote, it’s worth pondering: how does Australia’s voting system really work, anyway? The ...

Tasmania’s business community wants to scrap the state’s electoral system to end entrenched political chaos, as Labor’s new ...

SYDNEY (REUTERS) - Australia will hold a general election on May 18, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Thursday (April 11). Read more at straitstimes.com.

The lower house will get an electronic chamber voting system next year, its leader Christopher Pyne has revealed.

Tony Abbott was today sworn in as Australia’s 28th prime minister. The election results, however, are yet to be formally declared, with some controversy surrounding the counting of votes in the ...

While Russia is testing an e-proxy voting system based on a distributed ledger, Australia is launching a Blockchain voting app in hopes of starting a global political movement.

US election reform campaigners are arguing that voting should be compulsory, easy and served with a sausage, just like in Australia.