The Supreme Court decided 402 election law cases during the twentieth century. That statistic, and lots of other helpful information, is gleaned from the excellent summary of election law written by Rick Hasen. Professor Hasen is the nation’s most prolific election law scholar: co-author of an election law casebook, host of the leading election law web site, and author of numerous law review ar...

In the debate about partisan election administration, little attention has been focused on the views of local election officials. Election officials can be purveyors of partisanship as well as observers of the election administration environment. We use a series of national surveys of local election officials to examine the degree to which local officials of opposing parties have different poli...

In this paper, we provide eecient broadcasting and election algorithms in unoriented hypercubes. First, O(N) broadcasting and traversing algorithms are introduced, where N is the number of hy-percube vertices. This answers aarmatively the open question stated in Tel95a] whether linear-message broadcasting and traversing can be achieved on hypercubes without sense of direction. Moreover, by expl...

South-East Asia is suffering a rapid deterioration of the free press and Freedom expression. According to last report in World 2021, few years, almost all Asian countries have experienced reduction expression, certain cases, their rights been restricted. What kind effects do media on public opinion? How can disinformation, censorship, control manipulate Is social promoting anti-democracy establ...

Election incidents – where the elections system fails voters – are of increasing concern with the dramatic rise in the use of computerized electronic voting machines that store vote records in computer memory. The Election Protection Coalition (EPC) used a web-based election incident recording and reporting tool called the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) developed by the Verified Voti...

A possible winner of an election is a candidate that has, in some kind of incomplete-information election, the possibility to win in a complete extension of the election. The first type of problem we study is the Possible co-Winner with respect to the Addition of New Candidates (PcWNA) problem, which asks, given an election with strict preferences over the candidates, is it possible to make a d...

Using a dataset of over 1.9 million messages posted on Twitter by about 25,000 ISIS members, we explore how ISIS makes use of social media to spread its propaganda and to recruit militants from the Arab world and across the globe. By distinguishing between violence-driven, theological, and sectarian content, we trace the connection between online rhetoric and key events on the ground. To the be...

This paper seeks to demystify the failed uprising against the colonial administration in 1959 in remote south-eastern Portuguese Timor, an event which later was ably used as propaganda by Indonesian revisionist historians and pro-integration Timorese during the Indonesian occupation. Providing a historical context for the rebellion and a narrative of events based on archival sources and intervi...

Through the process of Eurocentric pro-colonialist propaganda people have been, and continue to be, led to assume that the European colonialists brought criminal justice and law and order to Africa. This article challenges those assumptions by using the work of scholars of African history to highlight the existence of criminal justice systems in Africa, in particular pre-colonial West Africa. I...