Securing the vote

Vote Early, Vote Often

Preliminary Analysis for Securing Vote Capture and Verification in DV and IV Voting Systems

Provided for consideration by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) and the Election Assistance Commission under the requirements of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. Authority This document has been provided for consideration by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) and the Election Assistance Commission under the requirements of the Help America Vote Ac...

Vote on How We Vote ?

Leslie matrices are taught as a method of modeling populations in a discrete-time fashion with more detail in the tracking of age groups within the population. Leslie matrices have limited use in the actual modeling of populations, since when the age groups are summed, it is basically equivalent to discrete-time modeling assuming exponential population growth. The logistic model of population g...

To vote or not to vote?

 Students will recognize the importance of voting within a democracy.  Students will conduct a survey of voters in the community.  Students will analyze results of the survey.  Students will suggest ways to increase voter participation.  Students will list steps in registering to vote.  Students will identify various ways to register to vote (local registration, on the Web, through the de...

To vote or not to vote: The paradox of nonvoting

One paradox of voting states that, in a general election, in which many citizens vote, the probability that a single voter can affect the outcome is so small that in general citizens have no rational reason for voting. However, if all citizens accept this reasoning, then none will vote, and so each vote has a large probability of affecting the outcome. Hence all should vote after all. The adopt...