Our single transferrable vote system of proportional representation – or PR-STV – is one of the most flexible and subtle systems anywhere in the world. It enables voters to support the candidate or ...

The Proportional Representation with a Single Transferrable Vote (PR-STV) electoral system used in Ireland is known as one of the fairest methods of counting votes in an election, but it is also one ...

Andrei Florian of St Aidan’s CBS in Dublin won the top prize in the software category for his blockchain-based digital voting system. Dublin teenager Andrei Florian has bagged two awards at an ...

The Eurovision Song Contest has a complex voting system which is regularly changed. To make things more complicated, the European Broadcasting Union, which produces the competition, has made some ...

Although more than 100 countries use a proportional representation (PR) voting system, Malta and Australia are the only ones, apart from ourselves, to employ the single transferable vote (STV).

Penalties should be introduced for TDs who abuse the electronic voting system in the Dáil and a new system of verifying votes should be introduced, a number of current and former politicians have said ...