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How Australia can fix America’s broken election system

Voters in seven US states will vote to adopt Australian-style preferential voting as electoral reformers try to move American politics back to the centre.

Benjamin Reilly and Ava Kalinauskas
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Diehards from both parties in the US presidential race claim that “democracy is on the ballot” in 2024.

But in some US states, Americans will be directly voting on the future of their democratic processes when they head to the polls in November.

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Benjamin Reilly is a Visiting Professor at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
Ava Kalinauskas is a research associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
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