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 ...

Current majority voting mechanism usually used in intrusion tolerant system have some limits. To solve this problem, a novel adaptive probability voting mechanism based on double threshold values is proposed. The intrusion tolerance system based on this voting mechanism can provide correct and reliable services continually in case of existing fault or intrusion and detect the faulty server repl...

In this paper I show howmembers of an assembly form voting blocs strategically to coordinate their votes and affect the policy outcome chosen by the assembly. In a repeated voting game, permanent voting blocs form in equilibrium. These permanent voting blocs act as endogenous political parties that exercise party discipline. In a stylized assembly I prove that the equilibrium parties must be tw...

Contents Preface 3 1 The study of voting behavior 5 1.1 The behavioral persuasion 7 1.2 Psychology and behavior 9 1.3 Voting behavior and action 13 1.4 Strategies of explanation 14 1.5 Research questions and outline 16 2 The empirical analysis of voting action 19 2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 The Würzburg school 21 2.3 Lazarsfeld and the empirical analysis of action 23 2.4 The Columbia approach to vo...

There are several consistency control algorithms for managing replicated files in the face of network partitioning due to site or communication link failures. In this paper, we consider the popular voting scheme along with three enhancements: voting with a primary site, dynamic voting, and dynamic voting with linearly ordered copiee. We develop a stochastic model which compares the file availab...

The analysis of voting power in elections has been playing an important role in many traditional social choice problems, where the voting power of an agent is measured by whether the agent is pivotal. In this paper, we introduce two new extensions of such pivotality to measure agents’ voting power in a given profile. The first extension, called hierarchical pivotal sets, captures the voting pow...

The current political climate has almost ruled out the use of Internet voting. Many politicians, led by vocal computer scientists, are pushing for voter verified paper receipts; which is likely to push us even further away from even electronic voting systems. On the other hand, cryptographers have created homomorphic encryption and non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs with features that can su...

Internet voting protocol is the base of the Internet voting systems. Firstly, an improved proof protocol that two ciphertexts are encryption of the same plaintext is introduced. Secondly, a receipt-free and coercion-resistant Internet voting protocol based on the non-interactive deniable authentication protocol and an improved proof protocol that two ciphertexts are encryption of the same plain...

Sticker Voting is a voting method where ballots are cast by placing stickers on favored candidates. It differs from many other voting methods because the act of voting reveals information to other players, which induces an asymmetry of information available to subsequent voters. Voters may strategize through both the choice of the submitted ballot and the timing of its submission. In this paper...

Social choice is replete with various settings including single-winner voting, multi-winner voting, probabilistic voting, multiple referenda, and public decision making. We study a general model of social choice called Sub-Committee Voting (SCV) that simultaneously generalizes these settings. We then focus on sub-committee voting with approvals and propose extensions of the justified representa...