The question how different electoral systems affect the represention of voters in parliaments has been a thorny issue for a considerable time. While some research suggests that first-past-the-posts systems should lead to a closer correspondence between the preferences of the electoral district’s median voter and of its representative, other work concludes that in proportional representation sys...

All voter-verifiable voting schemes in the literature require that the voter be able to see and to mark. This paper describes modifications to the Prêt à Voter and PunchScan schemes so that a voter who can either see or hear, or both, independent of marking ability, may avail of voter-verifiability without revealing her vote. The modified systems would provide privacy and integrity guarantees t...

We present a voter verifiable Internet voting scheme which provides anonymity and eliminates the danger of vote selling even if the computer used by the voter cannot be fully trusted. The ballots cast remain anonymous even the machine does not know the choice of the voter. It makes no sense to buy votes the voter can cheat the buyer even if his machine cooperates with the buyer. Nevertheless, t...

Hardware redundancy may be used in a variety of manners to achieve fault tolerance. One of the most popular techniques is a triple modular redundancy (TMR) scheme. Such a scheme has also been referred to as masking redundancy because failures those affect only if one of the three modules is masked by the majority of the nonfailed modules. Most of the published works on TMR make one crucial assu...

We develop a dynamic, 2-party citizen-candidate model in which candidates are distinguished by both their ideology and their valence. We provide sufficient conditions under which (i) the median voter is decisive and (ii) there exists a unique symmetric, stage-undominated, stationary perfect Bayesian equilibrium. In our dynamic setting, reputational concerns endogenize incentives to compromise. ...

When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of true left-wing conviction are valuable. As a consequence, even a moderate politician seeking reelection chooses “populist’ policies i.e., policies to the left of the median voter as a way of signaling that he is not from the right. Truly right-wing politicians r...

Electronic communities are relying increasingly on the results of continuous polls to rate the effectiveness of their members and offerings. Sites such as eBay and Amazon solicit feedback about merchants and products, with prior feedback and results-to-date available to participants before they register their approval ratings. In such a setting, participants are understandably prone to exaggera...

For digital circuit/system architectures, the triple modular redundancy (TMR) scheme is widely used to cope with circuit/system faults. The TMR scheme involves duplication of a circuit/system twice and the majority voter, based on Boolean majority logic, ensures that the architecture remains functional even if any copy of circuit/system may become faulty at any time. However, the fundamental as...

Voter registration is an important issue in election processes. In order to protect the election accuracy, it is necessary to have an accurate electoral roll of eligible voters. The electoral roll is usually constructed by means of a voter registration system that compiles voter data either in person or remotely. Current solutions for remote voter registration lack effective methods to prevent ...