This paper discusses the findings of a series of four focus group sessions carried out on a variant of the original Prêt à Voter prototype implementation [2]. The aim of these sessions was to investigate users’ ability to use the system, to discover any inadequacies of the system, and to gauge the participants’ understanding of its security mechanisms. The groups also discussed general issues a...

Why do people turn out to vote? By requiring coordination and by generating positive externalities on others while involving a private cost, turning out to vote resembles a public good contribution and is therefore subject to collective action problems. While this has been established theoretically, the empirical evidence is fraught with measurement and identification problems. We investigate w...

There has been much research in economics concerned with the factors affecting voter turnout. This research has so far ignored how the presence of children affects an individual’s propensity to vote. This paper shows that having young children decreases the likelihood of voting. Low income individuals are especially vulnerable to this increased cost of voting due to children, while higher incom...

This paper addresses the board flooding problem of Juels et al.’s coercion-resistant electronic voting scheme. A key property of this scheme is the possibility of casting invalid votes to the public board, which are indistinguishable from proper votes. Exactly this possibility is crucial for making the scheme coercion-resistant, but it also opens doors for flooding the board with an enormous am...

Remote electronic voting has long been considered a panacea for many of the problems with existing, paper-based election mechanisms: assurance that one’s vote has been counted as cast; ability to vote without fear of coercion; fast and reliable tallying; improvement in voter turnout. Despite these promised improvements, take-up of remote electronic voting schemes has been very poor, particularl...

Through an analysis of the 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Current Population Surveys as well as the 2004 through 2016 General Social Surveys, this article investigates class differences and patterns of voter turnout for the last four U.S. presidential elections. After developing some support for the claim that a surge of white, working-class voters emerged in competitive states in 2016, a portrait ...

les étudiants en français des universités iraniennes s'initient à cette langue étrangère alors qu'ils sont démunis d'un patrimoine langagier préexistant à l'apprentissage dans la plupart des cas. au fur et à mesure qu'ils parcourent leur cheminement didactique, ils se voient confrontés, entre autres, à un manque considérable dans le domaine lexical pour s'exprimer ...

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