the relation between religiosity and electoral behavior as the major research question in this study has been reported by some researchers with paradoxical results. for a more profound understanding of the relationship between the two variables, religiosity was analyzed at two levels: scale and type; electoral behavior was also investigated at two levels: voting tendency and voting participatio...

Voter anonymity and voting correctness are important issues for electronic voting mechanisms. Compared electronic voting with traditional 1elections, an electronic voter is able to cast his/her ballot through the Internet in any place and at any time if he/she can access the network. Therefore, convenience and mobility make electronic voting become more and more popular and electronic voting ca...

Plurality voting is widely used in pattern recognition practice. However, there is little theoretical analysis of plurality voting. In this paper, we attempt to explore the rationales behind plurality voting. The recognition/error/rejection rates of plurality voting are compared with those of majority voting under different conditions. It is demonstrated that plurality voting is more efficient ...

World wide, there are various proposals for automating manual voting processes. This paper considers two different e-voting schemes, Internet voting and direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems, explicitly focusing on risk to the integrity of the voting process. Fair elections must assure voter authentication, vote confidentiality and integrity, and the ability to audit the election. E-...

The 1996 constitutional reform unlinked the national and subnational elections configured in Uruguayan level uninominal majoritarian systems, where Mayor is main seat contest. However, it preserves a voting mechanism called Double Simultaneous Vote that determines dynamic of This article proposes an adaptation classic theory electoral coordination considering effects forementioned mechanism. st...

Sum& Conclusions Voting is important in the realization of ultrareliable systems based on the multi-channel computation paradigm. In an earlier paper (1991 Aug) I dealt with voting networks, viz, hardware implementation of certain voting schemes. A voting algorithm specifies how the voting result is obtained from the input data and can be the basis for implementing a hardware voting network or ...