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Showing 1 to 20 of 783 for “"Voting"”.
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Computational Aspects of Approval Voting and Declared-Strategy Voting
… possibility of manipulation through insincere voting. In approval voting systems, voters decide whether to approve or disapprove available alternatives; however, the specific nature of rational approval strategies has not been adequately studied. This research explores aspects of strategy under …
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Pattern matching encryption, strategic equivalence of range voting and approval voting, and statistical robustness of voting rules
… new results in the areas of cryptography and voting systems. 1. Pattern matching encryption: We present new, general definitions for queryable encryption schemes - encryption schemes that allow evaluation of private queries on encrypted data without performing full decryption. We construct an …
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Inconvenient Voting: Native Americans and The Costs of Early Voting
Proponents claim that the convenience of early voting increases voter turnout by reducing the time and effort to vote through expanded opportunities for participation beyond "traditional" in-person voting at polling places on election day. Yet, anecdotal evidence suggests that reforms intended to …
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Heuristic Weighted Voting
… we present the strategy of Heuristic Weighted Voting, a technique that uses heuristics to determine the confidence that a classifier has in its predictions on an instance by instance basis. Using these heuristics to weight the votes in an ensemble results in an overall average increase in …
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Iowa statewide voting patterns:1891-1912: naturalization does not create voting citizens
<p>Analysis of voting in political history can be problematic if sampling is used without regard for demographics, location, and participation rates. This project used population data, rather than sampling, from the township level, for the entire state of Iowa, beginning with the 1890 census …
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Collectively Voting One's Culture
… to explain the cognitive dissonance between voting behavior and regional needs. Then the thesis explores how the culture of the region serves as its own institution that protects itself from outside forces. This phenomenon is explained through an outline of the man-made institutions which …
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GPU Accelerated Refined Tensor Voting
… clarity and accuracy are crucial. The Tensor Voting algorithm offers a robust perceptual organization and feature extraction solution by leveraging geometric and contextual information. However, its high computational complexity has limited its adoption in many cases. Tensors do not always …
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Blockchain-Based E-Voting System
Research on e-voting systems and the blockchain technology. Evaluation on the blockchain as a service for implementing an e-voting system. Propose a novel design and implementation based on blockchain.
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Economic voting in new democracies
This study investigates economic voting in 70 new democracies that have experienced regime transition since 1974. By incorporating the analysis of elections in virtually all new democracies, this study shows how electorates react to changes in economic conditions under various socio-economic, …
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Voting on a mobile platform
… everyone has his/her own concern/opinion. Since voting is a simple and classic way of reflecting ideas from a group of people, we want to explore social voting behaviors on mobile platforms. By conducting this research study, we hope to unveil how to improve social voting user experience; our …
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Advances in cryptographic voting systems
… elections. We present the power of cryptographic voting, in particular its ability to successfully achieve both verifiability and ballot secrecy, a combination that cannot be achieved by other means. We review a large portion of the literature on cryptographic voting. We propose three novel …
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Three Empirical Analyses of Voting
To evaluate voting rules, it would be good to know what universe election outcomes are drawn from. Election theorists have postulated that elections might be drawn from various stochastic preference models, including the IC and IAC conditions, but these models induce empirically contradicted …
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A Combinatorial View of Weighted Voting
Given a chain of the partially ordered set of weighted games, it is currently unknown if weights can be assigned to each of the $n$ voters so that the chain is weighted. We conjecture that every consistent chain $C$ through weighted games admits weights, $\vec{w}$, such that for all weighted games …
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Information And Voting In Senate Elections
… efforts are more dismal. This study utilizes a voting correctly measure previously developed to analyze the ability of voters during Senate elections. Special attention in this study is given towards individual characteristics and campaign characteristics. First, individual characteristics, such …
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The voting model for people search
… be successfully and effectively modelled using a voting paradigm. In the so-called Voting Model, when a document is retrieved for a query, this document represents a vote for every expert associated with the document to have relevant expertise to the query topic. This voting paradigm is manifested …
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Candidates, the economy and voting behavior
… more likely to affect party loyalty in voting than the other? Therefore, in the first essay, I examine candidate effects in negative partisanship using 2016 U.S. presidential election data to explore whether and how candidates matter for party loyalty in voting. What does it mean to say …
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Comparing Quadratic Voting and Likert Surveys
… In this thesis, we compared it with Quadratic Voting, or QV, a voting mechanism designed to facilitate collective decision making. We compared the two surveying methods under scenarios in which a decision-maker had to choose among K options. First, we created a pretest that demonstrated the …
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Auditing technology for electronic voting machines
Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine security has been a significant topic of contention ever since Diebold voting machine code turned up on a public Internet site in 2003 and computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University declared the machine "unsuitable for use in a general …
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