The goal of the standards is to “address what a voting system should reliably do, not how system components should be configured to meet these requirement” [7, Vol I §1.1]. The standards present a certification procedure involving testing by Independent Testing Authorities (ITAs or, simply, Testing Authorities), and many jurisdictions cannot use systems that are uncertified. Virtually all vendo...

Do print media significantly impact political attitudes and party identification? To examine this question, we draw on a rare quasi-natural experiment that occurred when The Sun, a right-leaning UK tabloid, shifted its support to the Labour party in 1997 and back to the Conservative party in 2010. We compared changes in party identification and political attitudes among Sun readers with non-rea...

This article considers the hypothesis that media-driven political interest shapes party identification, the timing of vote decisions, and electoral participation. To estimate the effect of media-driven political interest, we make a key distinction between political interest as a lifetime political orientation and political interest that rises and falls with the occurrence of noteworthy politica...

Need to evaluate (NE) is a personality trait that reflects a person's proclivity to create and hold attitudes; people high in NE are especially likely to form attitudes toward all sorts of objects. Using data from the 1998 National Election Survey Pilot and the 2000 National Election Survey, NE was shown to predict a variety of important attitude-relevant cognitive, behavioral, and affective po...

The 2004 US Presidential Election cycle marked the debut of Internet-based media such as blogs and social networking websites as institutionally recognized features of the American political landscape. Particularly significant was the credentialing of selected blogs as officially designated media sources for purposes of covering the major political party conventions, an act which gave particula...

A marketing planning framework to aid political parties in improving their image and co-ordinating election campaigns has been developed to reflect the changing nature of electoral campaigning in the developed world towards the need for more long-term planning; together with the development and implementation of marketing models in a wider sphere of social situations. The planning model has bee...

This paper discusses the IberEval 2017 shared task on Classification Of Spanish Election Tweets (COSET) [5]. This task has the goal to analyze tweets that talk about Spanish General Election of 2015 and classify them in one of these 5 categories: political issues, policy issues, personal issues, campaign issues and other issues.

Critics of voting by mail express concern over its impact on civil society. For example, Thompson (2004) posits that voting by mail limits electoral civic engagement by preventing the temporal norm of simultaneity on Election Day. I, however, find that the open ballot system of voting by mail promotes deliberation, which encourages civic engagement. This study tests if voting by mail increases ...

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the civil servant' general election neutrality model. This used secondary data or library resources that included primary, secondary, and tertiary legal materials accomplish its goals. interviewed practitioners such National Civil Service Agency, State Apparatus Commission, Election Supervisory Board Republic Indonesia in order gather on personnel legis...

We conducted a field experiment to measure the effect of exposure to newspapers on political behavior and opinion. Before the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election, we randomly assigned individuals to a Washington Post free subscription treatment, a Washington Times free subscription treatment, or control. We find no effect of either paper on political knowledge, stated opinions or turnout in po...