Control and bribery are settings in which an external agent seeks to influence the outcome of an election. Constructive control of elections refers to attempts by an agent to, via such actions as addition/deletion/partition of candidates or voters, ensure that a given candidate wins [BTT92]. Destructive control refers to attempts by an agent to, via the same actions, preclude a given candidate’...

Punchscan is a unique hybrid paper/electronic voting system concept. As a receipt-based system, Punchscan provides high voter privacy and election integrity, yet it does not rely on the complex and fragile electronic voting machines found in many current implementations. In this paper, we define the Punchscan system and voting protocol, including the people, objects and events involved and the ...

We present an independent security evaluation of the AccuVote Optical Scan voting terminal (AV-OS).We identify a number of new vulnerabilities of this system which, if exploited maliciously, can invalidatethe results of an election process utilizing the terminal. Furthermore, based on our findings an AV-OScan be compromised with off-the-shelf equipment in a matter of minutes even if...

The recently proposed Prêt à Voter election scheme uses decryption mixes to achieve anonymity of votes and verifiability of an election while requiring minimal trust in the component of the election system that performs these mixes. However, this scheme still requires trust in several human and machine components; these requirements make the scheme impractical for use in remote voting. To adapt...

William King’s De Origine Mali has recently started to attract some attention in early modern scholarship. In a recent paper devoted theory of free will, Kenneth Pearce identifies “lacuna” his text, namely the fact that King “never explicitly describes process whereby election leads action” (Pearce, “William on Free Will”, 4). this paper, I analyse ‘election’ (roughly, choice) and Pearce’s inte...

Mechanism design is concerned with settings where a policy maker (or social planner) faces the problem of aggregating the announced preferences of multiple agents into a collective (or social), system-wide decision. One of the most important ways for aggregation preference used in a multi agent system is using election. In an election, the aim is to select the candidate who reects the common wi...

This research discusses the implementation of democracy in Indonesia through its governmental and constitutional systems. The main focus this study is on role constitution, particularly 1945 Constitution Republic Indonesia, conducting General Elections (Pemilu) as one mandates. adopts a descriptive-analytical approach to analyze how applied governance practices Indonesia. Through an examination...

With the increasing abundance of temporal data, recent research in social network analysis has explored the impact of external events or “shocks” on the structure and evolution of the underlying graph. This type of analysis stands in contrast to analysis of network dynamics based on properties intrinsic to the graph itself. An understanding of how social networks are shaped by external events c...

Leader Election in Distributed Networks Using Agent Based Self-stabilizing Technique. (August 2003) Raghav Tandon, B.E., Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Hoh In There are many variants of leader election algorithm in distributed networks. In this research, an agent based approach to leader election in distributed networks is investigated. ...