GENERAL VOTING LAW IN THE SYSTEM OF VOTING LAW

Duverger’s Law Without Strategic Voting

Duverger’s Law states that plurality rule in single member districts tends to produce a two-party system. Most formal explanations of this Law rely on strategic voting. In this paper we present a model that yields Duverger’s Law without this assumption. Specifically, we show that even with nonstrategic or “sincere” voters, the strategic decisions of policy-motivated candidates lead to two candi...

Ranking units in DEA by using the voting system

The Dimensions of Electronic Voting Technology, Law, Politics and Society

Since the Internet boom in the 1990's the question has arisen, will it be possible to vote via the Internet one day. In many European countries and around the world initiatives of research institutions, private organisations and governments have tried to provide an electronic solution to this key democratic process. As many projects there are, as many different strategies lie behind that. Based...

Voting and different ranking orders in DEA

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique now widely use for efficiency evaluation of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs). As regards of the necessity for ranking efficient units different DEA models presented each of which has advantages and rank efficient units from special aspects. Note that all the existing ranking models have disadvantages, as well and there is not a model in which all t...

The ThreeBallot Voting System

We present a new paper-based voting method with interesting security properties. The attempt here is to see if one can achieve the same security properties of recently proposed cryptographic voting protocols, but without using any cryptography, using only paper ballots. We partially succeed. (Initially, I thought the proposal accomplished this goal, but several readers discovered a vote-buying ...