Ballot (and voter) “exhaustion” under Instant Runoff Voting: An examination of four ranked-choice elections

Exploring the Universe of Test Data

This paper answers the question of what kind and how much testing is necessary to have confidence in the correctness of an arbitrary piece of software via a rigorous analysis of a given algorithm with a complex data structure. For example, in preference voting schemes, many different choices are ranked in order of preference on a ballot. In typical elections, the number of permutations of rank ...

Voting Machines and Voter Participation in Four Michigan Constitutional Revision Referenda Norman

HE ANALYSIS of voting and elections has undoubtedly become one of the ~ principal areas of investigation for political scientists, especially among those .M primarily concerned with American politics. Quite understandably, much of the research on the subject has tended to focus on individual voting behavior and its relationship to psychological and sociological variables.’ This research has pro...

Comments on Ornstein and Norman, "Frequency of monotonicity failure under Instant Runoff Voting: estimates based on a spatial model of elections," Public Choice

A Linked-List Approach to Cryptographically Secure Elections Using Instant Runoff Voting

Numerous methods have been proposed to conduct cryptographically secure elections. Most of these protocols focus on 1-out-of-n voting schemes. Few protocols have been devised for preferential voting systems, in which voters provide a list of rankings of the candidates, and many of those treat ballots as if they were ballots in a 1-out-of-n voting scheme. We propose a linked-list-based scheme th...

Prêt à Voter: All-In-One

A number of voter-verifiable electronic voting schemes have been introduced in the recent decades. These schemes not only provide each voter with a receipt without the threat of coercion and ballot selling, but also the ballot tallying phase can be publicly verified. Furthermore, these schemes are robust because the power of authorities can be threshold distributed. Generally speaking, the homo...