Topic
Voting
About: Voting is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 33686 publications have been published within this topic receiving 791380 citations. The topic is also known as: vote & poll.
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed voter confidence in the American electoral process and found significant differences in the level of voter confidence along both racial and partisan lines, and found that voter familiarity with the electoral process, opinions about electoral process in other voting precincts, and both general opinions about voting technology and the specific technology the voter uses significantly affect voter confidence.
Abstract: Building on the literature that investigates citizen and voter trust in government, we analyze the topic of voter confidence in the American electoral process. Our data comes from two national telephone surveys where voters were asked the confidence they have that their vote for president in the 2004 election was recorded as intended. We present preliminary evidence that suggests confidence in the electoral process affects voter turnout. We then examine voter responses to determine the overall level of voter confidence and analyze the characteristics that influence the likelihood a voter is confident that their ballot was recorded accurately. Our analyses indicate significant differences in the level of voter confidence along both racial and partisan lines. Finally, we find voter familiarity with the electoral process, opinions about the electoral process in other voting precincts, and both general opinions about voting technology and the specific technology the voter uses significantly affect the level of voter confidence.
223 citations
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TL;DR: Hettich and Winer as discussed by the authors examined tax policies and tax systems as they arise from democratic choices, set against the background of a market economy and found that democratic institutions yield complex tax systems with features that follow a varied but predictable pattern.
Abstract: This work examines tax policies and tax systems as they arise from democratic choices, set against the background of a market economy. Professors Hettich and Winer find that democratic institutions yield complex tax systems with features that follow a varied but predictable pattern. In developing their analysis, the authors use formal modelling of voting behavior, emphasizing recent advances in the theory of probabilistic voting. This book differs from the available tax literature by relating fiscal choices directly to voting and by examining tax systems in democratic countries from a variety of perspectives. While the authors primarily focus on explaining observed features of tax systems, they also devote considerable space to the discussion of the welfare and efficiency effects of taxation in the presence of collective choice, and to a review of other models and of the related literature. In addition, they use computational general equilibrium analysis and statistical research on national and state governments in the US and Canada to link theory to empirical data.
223 citations
1 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Impossibility and Computational Hardness of Manipulation as mentioned in this paper are two of the main obstacles in voting rule-based election process, and they have been studied extensively in the literature.
Abstract: 3 Voting 17 3.1 Voting Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.1.1 Scoring Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.1.2 Condorcet Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.1.3 Other Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.2 Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3.2.1 The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Impossibility . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.2.2 Restricted Domains of Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.2.3 Computational Hardness of Manipulation . . . . . . . . . 26 3.2.4 Probabilistic Voting Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.2.5 Irresolute Voting Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3.3 Possible and Necessary Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined dual-class equity crowdfunding as a digital ownership model and found that a higher separation between ownership and control rights lowers the probability of success of the offering, the likelihood of attracting professional investors, as well as the long-run prospects.
223 citations
4 Oct 2010
TL;DR: It is concluded that in spite of the EVM machines' simplicity and minimal software trusted computing base, they are vulnerable to serious attacks that can alter election results and violate the secrecy of the ballot.
Abstract: Elections in India are conducted almost exclusively using electronic voting machines developed over the past two decades by a pair of government-owned companies. These devices, known in India as EVMs, have been praised for their simple design, ease of use, and reliability, but recently they have also been criticized following widespread reports of election irregularities. Despite this criticism, many details of the machines' design have never been publicly disclosed, and they have not been subjected to a rigorous, independent security evaluation. In this paper, we present a security analysis of a real Indian EVM obtained from an anonymous source. We describe the machine's design and operation in detail, and we evaluate its security in light of relevant election procedures. We conclude that in spite of the machines' simplicity and minimal software trusted computing base, they are vulnerable to serious attacks that can alter election results and violate the secrecy of the ballot. We demonstrate two attacks, implemented using custom hardware, which could be carried out by dishonest election insiders or other criminals with only brief physical access to the machines. This case study carries important lessons for Indian elections and for electronic voting security more generally.
223 citations
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Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 |
| 2025 | 1,275 |
| 2024 | 1,635 |
| 2023 | 2,550 |
| 2022 | 3,426 |
| 2021 | 1,602 |