In the popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top 24 contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the judges, Simon Cowell, threatened to quit the show if a contestant, Sanjaya Malakar, who was clearly a low-ability c...

In 1997, NIST introduced a voting scheme called ROVER for combining word scripts produced by different speech recognizers. This approach has achieved a relative word error reduction of up to 20% when used to combine the systems’ outputs from the 1998 and 1999 Broadcast News evaluations. Recently, there has been increasing interest in using this technique. This paper provides an analysis of seve...

A conflicting knowledge base can be seen abstractly as a set of arguments and a binary relation characterising conflict among them. There may be multiple plausible ways to evaluate conflicting arguments. In this paper, we ask: given a set of agents, each with a legitimate subjective evaluation of a set of arguments, how can they reach a collective evaluation of those arguments? After formally d...

The paper presents an approach to extract irregularities in document corpora, where the documents originate from different sources and the analyst’s interest is to find documents which are atypical for the given source. The main contribution of the paper is a voting-based approach to irregularity detection and its evaluation on a collection of newspaper articles from two sources: Western (UK an...

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| 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...

We present Phrase-Verified Voting, a voter-verifiable remote voting system easily assembled from commercial off-the-shelf software for small private elections. The is transparent and enables each voter to verify that the tally includes their ballot selection without requiring any understanding of cryptography. This an example making verification usable. paper describes experience with it in fal...

In ancient days voting takes place through the Kudavolai voting system. It works in the way of picking a paper among many rolled paper in a bowl. Then Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is a simple electronic device used to record votes in place of ballot papers and boxes which were used earlier in conventional voting system. Fundamental right to vote or simply voting in elections forms the basis ...

This paper compares the relative merit in realistic versus lab style experiments for testing voting technology. By analyzing three voting experiments, we describe the value of realistic settings in showing the enormous challenges for voting process control and consistent voting experiences. The methodology developed for this type of experiment will help other researchers to test polling place p...