State-of-the-art e-voting systems rely on voters to perform certain actions to ensure that the election authorities are not manipulating the election result. This so-called “end-to-end (E2E) verifiability” is the hallmark of current e-voting protocols; nevertheless, thorough analysis of current systems is still far from being complete. In this work, we initiate the study of e-voting protocols a...

To what extent did the extensive flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina affect voter participation in the 2006 mayoral election? This article uses voting record data from 20 election cycles, GIS-coded flood-depth data, and census data to examine the voting behavior of registered voters in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. We use a variety of statistical techniques, primarily propens...

D and introducing new technological applications is a complex undertaking and relates to and depends on many technical, social, political, organizational, legal, and behavioral factors. Therefore, real-life experimentation and multidisciplinary research are required to make the opportunities and risks of new technologies visible, and to improve the reflexivity of design, implementation, and org...

Previously we and others have shown evidence for genetic influences on political attitudes and sociodemographic indicators (Martin 1987; Posner et al. 1996; Truett et al. 1992; Eaves et al. 1999). However, the nature of the relationship between political attitudes, social indictors and voting behavior has not been investigated. While heritability estimates for social and political attitudes hav...

We consider synchronous iterative voting, where voters are given the opportunity to strategically choose their ballots depending on outcome deduced from previous collective choices. propose two settings for one of classical flavor with a discrete space states, and more general continuous-space setting extending first one. give robustness result cycles not relying tie-breaking rule, showing that...

some applications are critical and must designed Fault Tolerant System. Usually Voting Algorithm is one of the principle elements of a Fault Tolerant System. Two kinds of voting algorithm are used in most applications, they are majority voting algorithm and weighted average algorithm these algorithms have some problems. Majority confronts with the problem of threshold limits and voter of weight...

some applications are critical and must designed Fault Tolerant System. Usually Voting Algorithm is one of the principle elements of a Fault Tolerant System. Two kinds of voting algorithm are used in most applications, they are majority voting algorithm and weighted average algorithm these algorithms have some problems. Majority confronts with the problem of threshold limits and voter of weight...

Understanding the nature of strategic voting is the holy grail of social choice theory, where game-theory, social science and recently computational approaches are all applied in order to model the incentives and behavior of voters. In a recent paper, Meir et al. (2014) made another step in this direction, by suggesting a behavioral game-theoretic model for voters under uncertainty. For a speci...

Policymakers in the Unites States and many other countries encourage charitable giving through various subsidies. In the United States, for instance, charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income making the price of giving inversely related to the marginal tax rate. However, the net effects of such subsidies can be better understood by exploring the relationship between generosit...

Using a new dataset that takes advantage of a novel survey design, I accomplish a joint estimation of citizens’ policy views and legislators’ ideal points on the same scale. I analyze several important questions about people’s preferences, perceptions and voting behavior using the case of the 2004 presidential election. In contrast to many earlier works, I show that most people do in fact have ...