The 2016 presidential election season and subsequent political events have had physical and emotional impacts on youth. We collected qualitative insights from 14 to 24 year olds across the US related to these events over time. Open-ended probes were sent via text message at three time points before and after the 2016 presidential election. The majority of youth reported emotional stress during ...

Leader election in a network plays an important role in the area of distributed algorithm design. Structural properties of the network as well as presence of direction on the edges of the network greatly affects the complexity of the leader election problem which is primarily measure by the message complexity of the protocol. Our purpose in the present paper is to adapt the existing distributed...

We study the election and the naming problems in the asynchronous message passing model. We present a necessary condition based on Angluin’s lifting lemma [Ang80] that must be satisfied by any network that admits a naming (or an election) algorithm. We then show that this necessary condition is also sufficient: we present an election and naming algorithm based on Mazurkiewicz’s algorithm [Maz97...

Canada’s 41 national general election saw the Conservative Party increase its seat count from 143 to 166, thus giving it a majority of the national parliament’s 308 seats. By contrast, nearly all of the pre-election seat count forecasts predicted a Conservative minority only. We examine the extent to which simple statistical models could or could not have predicted the Conservative majority pri...

We consider the problem of secure leader election and propose two cheat-proof election algorithms : Secure Extrema Finding Algorithm (SEFA) and Secure Preference-based Leader Election Algorithm (SPLEA). Both algorithms assume a synchronous distributed system in which the various rounds of election proceed in a lock-step fashion. SEFA assumes that all elector-nodes share a single common evaluati...

Electronic voting systems are being introduced, or trialled, in several countries to provide more efficient voting procedures with an increased level of security. However, current deployment has resulted in catastrophic failure due to unrealistic trust assumptions. In particular, the trustworthiness of hardware/software and election officials has been assumed. In practice, it is very difficult ...

The current study examined a prediction derived from the challenge hypothesis; individuals who viciously win a competition of rank order will seek out pornography relatively more often than individuals who viciously lose a competition. By examining Google keyword searches during the 2006 and 2010 midterm elections in the United States, the relative popularity of various pornography keyword sear...

This paper examines the impact of political uncertainty on the recent financial crises in emerging markets. By examining political election cycles, we find that eight out of nine of the recent financial crises happened during periods of political election and transition. Using a combination of probit and switching regression analysis, we find that there is a significant relationship between pol...

This paper examines Hispanic voting behavior in the 2004 Presidential election. Our research makes a significant contribution to the literature on Hispanic politics, as this is the first study to apply theories of issue and economic voting to a nationwide sample of Hispanic voters. We demonstrate that, similar to Anglos, issues and ideology were highly influential in the vote choice of Hispanic...