The decentralization of lists has traditionally made it difficult to make a full accounting of the performance of the election system that would allow local election offices to gauge how well they are doing. Complete reporting of voter registrations, turnout at the precinct and election office level would improve the ability of election offices to diagnose where problems arise and for offices t...

ion (‘‘Seek God,’’ 69). It seems that McCormack subscribes to the older historiography among Barthians that has characterized Protestant orthodoxy as being cold, mechanical, speculative, and abstract; in other words, more influenced by Greek philosophy than biblical exegesis. A refutation of this characterization is offered by Richard Muller in ‘‘Calvin and the Calvinists, Part 2,’’ 148-51. 92 ...

In the wake of Barack Obama’s presidential election, many wondered what his election indicates about the importance of race in the United States. In this paper, we explore whether a desire to protect the racial hierarchy motivated Whites to endorse the belief that Obama’s election means that race is no longer a problem. The results from two studies align with this possibility. Among Whites who ...

How efficiently can a malicious device disrupt communication in a wireless network? Imagine a basic game involving two honest players, Alice and Bob, who want to exchange information, and an adversary, Collin, who can disrupt communication using a limited budget of β broadcasts. How long can Collin delay Alice and Bob from communicating? In fact, the trials and tribulations of Alice and Bob cap...

We present two probabilistic leader election algorithms for anonymous unidirectional rings with FIFO channels, based on an algorithm from Itai and Rodeh [14]. In contrast to the Itai-Rodeh algorithm, our algorithms are finite-state. So they can be analyzed using explicit state space exploration; we used the probabilistic model checker PRISM to verify, for rings up to size four, that eventually ...

In a multi-level election, voters are divided into groups, an election is held within each group, and some deterministic procedure is used to combine the group results to determine the overall election result. Examples of multi-level elections include U.S. presidential elections and some parliamentary elections (such as those with regional groupings of voters). The results of such an election c...

The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is a voting system used in some parts of Britain and Australia today. We model the voting system by randomly generating N candidates over [0,1], and assigning areas closest to them. As N increases, the probability that the STV election and the plurality election will produce the same result decreases. In single-winner elections candidates at .5 have the highes...

reformism discourse was organized according to a set of non- homogeneous theories and because it was a combination of traditional teachings of islam and teachings of modern liberalism simultaneously, it didn’t have any theoretical integrity. immediate integration of reformers during the election was dues to a historical necessity of opposition against conservatisms, candidate who considered him...

We present an independent security evaluation of the AccuVote Optical Scan voting terminal (AV-OS). We identify a number of new vulnerabilities of this system which, if exploited maliciously, can invalidate the results of an election process utilizing the terminal. Furthermore, based on our findings an AV-OS can be compromised with off-the-shelf equipment in a matter of minutes even if the mach...

Leader election is an extensively studied problem in Ad hoc networks. In our study, we have implemented an extended idea of an existing leader election algorithm for energy saving to arbitrary topological changes. In this method, our focus is to reduce the number of leader election processes; to make it more energy efficient. Unlike the previous solutions, the algorithm proposes that each node ...