Canada’s 41 national general election saw the Conservative Party increase its seat count from 143 to 166, thus giving it a majority of the national parliament’s 308 seats. By contrast, nearly all of the pre-election seat count forecasts predicted a Conservative minority only. We examine the extent to which simple statistical models could or could not have predicted the Conservative majority pri...

How competent a politician looks, as assessed in the laboratory, is correlated with whether the politician wins in real elections. This finding has led many to investigate whether the association between candidate appearances and election outcomes transcends cultures. However, these studies have largely focused on European countries and Caucasian candidates. To the best of our knowledge, there ...

Definitions of election verifiability in the computational model of cryptography are proposed. The definitions formalize notions of voters verifying their own votes, auditors verifying the tally of votes, and auditors verifying that only eligible voters vote. The Helios (Adida et al., 2009) and JCJ (Juels et al., 2010) election schemes are shown to satisfy these definitions. Two previous defini...

This study questions why this is so and analyses the factors that prevent women from participating in the parliamentary election in Iran. The purpose of this research is to study the An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Women’s Participation in the Parliamentary election in Iran. It focuses on socio-political factors influencing the participation of women as electorate in the five General Ele...

this study questions why this is so and analyses the factors that prevent women from participating in the parliamentary election in iran. the purpose of this research is to study the an analysis of the factors influencing women’s participation in the parliamentary election in iran. it focuses on socio-political factors influencing the participation of women as electorate in the five general ele...