based on a meta-theoretical analysis of voting, the present paper is an attempt to present a theoretical model encompassing all the possible aspects of voting in an election action system, proposing four sub-systems of voting as follows: economic voting, political voting, cultural voting and moral voting. having distinguished among these sub-systems, the writer describes the constitutive elemen...

When a number of like-minded voters vote strategically and have limited abilities to communicate the under and overshooting may occur when too few or too many of them vote insincerely. In this paper we discuss this phenomenon and define the concept of a safe strategic vote. We prove that for any onto and non-dictatorial social choice rule there exist a profile at which a voter can make a safe s...

In this paper, we focus on the design of the winner-determination procedure of an electronic voting protocol used at critical elections, e.g. at the meeting of the board of a company for critical business decisions or a parliamentary committee for legislation. The number of participating voters is limited to several hundreds but the voting should satisfy a new privacy requirement that the accum...

In voting rights cases, judges often infer unobservable individual vote choices from election data aggregated at the precinct level. That is, one must solve an ill-posed inverse problem to obtain the critical information used in these cases. The ill-posed nature of the problem means that traditional frequentist and Bayesian approaches cannot be employed without first imposing a range of assumpt...