We conducted surveys before and after the 2012 U.S. Presidential election and prior to the NY City Mayoral election in 2013. The surveys were done using Amazon Turk. This poster describes the results of our analysis of the surveys and predicts the winner of the NY City Mayoral Election.

In [3], Barrière et al. consider a qualitative model of distributed computing, where the labels of the entities are distinct but mutually incomparable. They study the leader election problem in a distributed mobile environment and they wonder whether there exists an algorithm such that for each distributed mobile environment, it either states that the problem cannot be solved in this environmen...

Many reliable distributed services rely on an eventual leader election to coordinate actions. The eventual leader detector has been proposed as a way to implement such an abstraction. It ensures that, eventually, each process in the system will be provided by an unique leader, elected among the set of correct processes in spite of crashes and uncertainties. A number of eventual leader election ...

Executive Summary The widespread adoption of e-election systems (that is, any IT system used for elections) in Australia has introduced many challenges in ensuring the quality and transparency of our elections. So far the development and operation of e-election systems has been in accordance with standard industry practice. However this is inappropriate for mission critical systems where securi...

Positive Empirical Models of Election Fraud (that May Also also Measure Voters’ Strategic Behavior) A landmark in election forensics was the 2012 PNAS paper by Klimek, Yegorov, Hanel and Thurner, which presents the first positive empirical model of election fraud: positive in the sense that the model describes what a fraudulent election looks like and then estimates the amount of fraud (of whic...

a wireless sensor network consists of many inexpensive sensor nodes that can be used toconfidently extract data from the environment .nodes are organized into clusters and in each cluster all non-cluster nodes transmit their data only to the cluster-head .the cluster-head transmits all received data to the base station .because of energy limitation in sensor nodes and energy reduction in each d...

Election surveys have several purposes, including forecasting election outcomes and studying the distribution of votes as they vary over geographic, demographic, and political variables. Bayesian methods can be useful in the design and analysis of election surveys, with the details depending on speciic features of the data collection and goals of inference. In many cases, the natural Bayesian a...