Ballot Order Effects Under Compulsory Voting*

Strategic Voting and Ballot Order Effects - Online Appendix

How long is a piece of string? An exploration of multi-winner approval voting and ballot-length restrictions

Multi-winner approval elections are seen in a variety of settings ranging from academic societies and associations to public elections. In such elections, it is often the case that ballot-length restrictions are enforced; that is, where voters have a limit on the number of candidates which they can vote for. Despite this common feature, there does not seem to be any theoretical justification fo...

An Efficient Method to Avoid False Voting Using Sms Voting Approach

In ancient days voting takes place through the Kudavolai voting system. It works in the way of picking a paper among many rolled paper in a bowl. Then Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is a simple electronic device used to record votes in place of ballot papers and boxes which were used earlier in conventional voting system. Fundamental right to vote or simply voting in elections forms the basis ...

Compulsory Voting, Habit Formation, and Political Participation

Can compulsory voting induce lasting changes in citizens’ voting habits? We study the long-term and spillover effects of a severely sanctioned and long-standing compulsory voting law in the Swiss canton of Vaud (1900–1970). Our findings suggest that compulsory voting strongly increases turnout in federal referendums by about 30 percentage points. However, this effect returns to zero quickly aft...

A Practical Privacy Preserving E-Voting Protocol Using Dynamic Ballots

We describe a practical e-voting protocol which guarantees e-voting protocol requirements: eligibility, privacy, accuracy, fairness, receipt-freeness, uncoercibility, robustness and verifiability. Unlike existing blind signature based protocols, in which the authority blindly signs ballot or part of ballot, the authority in our protocol blindly signs voter’s pseudo identity. Hereafter, voter be...