The Electronic Ballot Box: A Rational Voting Model for Class, Age, and Racial Bias

The Electronic Ballot Box: A Rational Voting Model and the Internet

This research creates a theoretical framework for understanding the effect of Internet voting on the electorate. Based on standard Downsian rational choice voting theory, we claim that Internet voting lowers the cost of voting for certain voting demographics based upon race, age, and income. We further contend that this electoral advantage may crystallize the growing turnout disparity between d...

A Digital Electronic Ballot Counter Box

Little or no technological advancement, geometric increase in population, and manual counting process has made a democratic system practiced by developing countries of the world inefficient, slow and unattractive. To move away from this system, technology must be adopted to automate democratic process of voting. This paper describes the design and implementation of a digital electronic ballot c...

Consequences of the Secret Ballot and Electronic Voting

for SSCW-2004 March 14, 2004 Secret ballots were introduced for public elections in Australia, followed by the U.S., in the latter half of the 19 Century. The ostensible reason for their introduction was to prevent coercion by employers and political parties, who often controlled the printing and distribution of ballots and could thus prevent their supporters from deviating from the “party line...

Bigger than a Ballot Box

the innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran

آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...