Mozambique: Vote Preparations

Vote Early, Vote Often

Vote on How We Vote ?

Leslie matrices are taught as a method of modeling populations in a discrete-time fashion with more detail in the tracking of age groups within the population. Leslie matrices have limited use in the actual modeling of populations, since when the age groups are summed, it is basically equivalent to discrete-time modeling assuming exponential population growth. The logistic model of population g...

To vote or not to vote?

 Students will recognize the importance of voting within a democracy.  Students will conduct a survey of voters in the community.  Students will analyze results of the survey.  Students will suggest ways to increase voter participation.  Students will list steps in registering to vote.  Students will identify various ways to register to vote (local registration, on the Web, through the de...

Voting, vote capture & vote counting symposium

Elections, and enfranchisement of citizens, are a foundational element of democracy, yet the implementation of elections in terms of both technology and process varies widely. [1] New voting technologies offer promise yet create new risks; and the process and technology must be simultaneously adopted and crafted. In order to explore both the promise and the risk, a Symposium at the Kennedy Scho...

Vote Buying

We examine the consequences of vote buying, as if this practice were allowed and free of stigma. Two parties competing in a binary election may purchase votes via up front binding payments and/or payments (platforms) that are contingent upon the outcome of the election. If voters care only about outcomes and not directly about how they vote, then the party with the largest budget wins at a negl...