The films and accompanying lesson plans provide a fresh perspective on democracy, elections, governance, and debating, appropriate for grades 10-12 (USA: PBS 2016-18).

Since 2002 San Francisco voters rank their candidates (USA: VOX 2019).

Acronym, an organisation “committed to electing progressive candidates” hammered home the message that by not voting, young voters would allow older, often more conservative voters to make choices in their place with a viral video “Knock the Vote” (USA 2018).

This nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases (USA 2017).

Groups like Independentvoting.org, which has grass-roots organizations in 40 states, are mobilizing against the de facto disenfranchisement of independent voters (who now outnumber both Democrats and Republicans) through the gerrymandering of nearly 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts into one-party monopolies (USA 2016).

In many states, where the majority party has the authority to rewrite the electoral map, legislators essentially have the power to choose their voters (New York Times Lesson 2018).

Electoral systems vary. Two U.S. states and several cities have adopted ranked-choice voting which lets voters select their favorite candidate. This infographic walks through the process step-by-step and is a good starting place to introduce students to this and other electoral systems (iCivics 2021).

Caucus, delegate, swing voters, referendum. These are just a few of the terms associated with elections that can be confusing. This glossary helps reviewing the language of elections(USA: iCivics 2021)