Election Fever

Election Reform After the 2000 Election

Election Systems

The various election systems used throughout the world can be divided into three families: Plurality-Majority, Proportional, and Semi-Proportional. Each family has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. All three families of systems can be used for electing legislative bodies, such as the state legislature, city councils, and school boards. For executive offices, such as governo...

The truncated geometric election algorithm: Duration of the election

1. Motivation This is a sequel paper to Kalpathy and Ward (2014), which also appears in Statistics and Probability Letters. The earlier paper introduces a randomized leader election algorithm, in which a truncated geometric number of participants survive from round to round. (Louchard and Prodinger (2009), constitutes a good starting point for readers who are unfamiliar with randomized leader e...

Study of Pakistan Election System as Intelligent e-Election

The proposed election system lies in ensuring that it is transparent and impartial. Those who rule must be true representative of people’s. Thus while the electoral system may vary from country to country, It has to take into account the peculiarities of every society while at the same time incorporating remedies to problems prevailing in the system. The Electoral process expressed serious conc...

Second-digit Tests for Voters’ Election Strategies and Election Fraud∗

The second significant digits of precinct-level (or polling station-level) vote counts follow regular patterns when voters are acting strategically and when there are partisan imbalances of voters in districts (when there is a gerrymander). The digits often follow distinctive patterns when vote counts are affected by coercion. The patterns are illustrated by a simulation exercise that generates...