Convenience Voting Can Affect Election Outcomes
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Convenience Voting Can Affect Election Outcomes
Forms of convenience voting, including voting-by-mail (VBM), provide citizens the opportunity to cast ballots without being exposed to the information revealed in the final weeks leading up to Election Day. This creates the possibility that informational differences will cause VBM and polling place voters to vote differently. We test this hypothesis by looking at whether the increased use of VB...
متن کاملDoes Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election
Supporters of touch-screen voting claim it is a highly reliable voting technology, while a growing number of critics argue that paperless electronic voting systems are vulnerable to fraud. In this paper we use county-level data on voting technologies in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections to test whether voting technology affects electoral outcomes. We first show that there is a positive c...
متن کاملHow majorities can lose the election Another voting paradox
We show that due to free riding of potential voters facing positive voting costs, the proposal with the highest number of supporters can still be the most likely to lose a binary election.
متن کاملSocial Voting & Election Coordination in Rural Hondurans
Models of voter choice frequently assume voters behave as independent actors who make decisions in a social vacuum. Recent work has demonstrated that social connections play a formative role in the decision to turnout to vote, to take expressive political action, and in the formation of political identity. Yet, no work has examined how social connections influence voters’ choices in an election...
متن کاملElection Verifiability in Electronic Voting Protocols
We present a formal, symbolic definition of election verifiability for electronic voting protocols in the context of the applied pi calculus. Our definition is given in terms of boolean tests which can be performed on the data produced by an election. The definition distinguishes three aspects of verifiability: individual, universal and eligibility verifiability. It also allows us to determine ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1533-1296,1557-8062
DOI: 10.1089/elj.2010.0088