Most voting schemes rely on a number of authorities. If too many of these authorities are dishonest then voter privacy may be violated. To give stronger guarantees of voter privacy Kiayias and Yung [1] introduced the concept of elections with perfect ballot secrecy. In this type of election scheme it is guaranteed that the only thing revealed about voters’ choices is the result of the election,...

in france, parliamentary elections are divided into two elections: the elections for the representatives of the national assembly and the elections for the senators of the senate. the french constitution council is a competent body to supervise these national and political elections through dealing with complaints and deciding about complaints raised in connection with these elections. the coun...

The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for health correctly concluded that: 'with globalization, health inequity increasingly results from transnational activities that involve actors with different interests and degrees of power'. At the same time, taking up that Commission's focus on political determinants of health and 'power asymmetries' requires recognizing the inter...

Political Districting Problem is one of the critical issues in political elections, it can be expressed as: how to partition a state into reasonable districts for parliament election and presidential election. In this paper, the political districting problem for parliament election is modelled as a doubly weighted graph partition problem and it is formulated into quadratic programming model. Us...

This paper adopts an information systems perspective to study the recent American presidential election. The election may be seen as a decision making process to choose the leader to represent the wishes and interests of the people. The system supporting the process is an information system, with information technology, inputs, outputs, users, human operators, procedures, assumptions, and goals...

Three developments have created challenges for political representation in the U.S. and particularly for the use of territorially based representation (election by district). First, the demographic complexity of the U.S. population has grown both in absolute terms and in terms of residential patterns. Second, legal developments since the 1960s have recognized an increasing number of groups as e...

In this paper, we propose a blind multisignature scheme based on an extension of the RSA cryptosystem (called the ERSA system). Taking advantage of the scheme, we then present a new multiauthority electronic election system, which can meet all of the following requirements: eligibility, collision free, vigorousness of authorities, accuracy, privacy, verifiability, robustness, fairness, and prev...

The election system used to select Afghanistan’s Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) has radically shaped the realms of democratic stability and political legitimacy since its introduction for the elections of 2005. Afghanistan uses the Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV) in 34 provincial-level, multi-member constituencies with a special affirmative action (quota) mechanism for women. The ...