Middleware is a class of software systems above the operating system which is becoming widely used for programming distributed systems. Voting is a fundamental operation when distributed systems involve replicated components. However, support for voting in middleware is very limited. This paper describes issues involved with supporting voting, and more general data fusion, in middleware. We des...

This open access book E-Vote-ID 2022 focuses on Electronic Voting from aspects relating to security and usability much more.

This paper aims to introduce the current situation of electronic voting (e-voting) in Japan and discuss its challenges. E-voting has gradually spread in Japan. It has been used a total of twenty times by ten local governments since it was first introduced in 2002. Under the current law, e-voting can be used only for the election of the head of local government or council members. The paper firs...

This introduction to the Public Choice special issue on “Quadratic Voting and the Public Good” provides an opinionated narrative summary of the contents and surveys the broader literature related to Quadratic Voting (QV). QV is a voting rule, proposed by one of us (Weyl, 2012; Lalley and Weyl, 2016) building off earlier work by Groves and Ledyard (1977) and Hylland and Zeckhauser (1980), where ...

| This paper examines and compares the merits and demerits of the national (global) and the regional (partitioned) voting system where the national voting selects a candidate directly by a simple majority of the entire voting population of the nation while the regional voting chooses the candidate indirectly by a majority of the regions, not by the majority of the entire votes. And we demonstra...