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Showing 1 to 20 of 276 for “"voter"”.
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Finding the swing voter : definitions and survey methods for voter classification
… Using on-line processing based in emotion, voters form affective summaries about candidates, which store previous information as an emotional response. The act of voting is treated as a single realization of a probabilistic event, with the relative probabilities of each vote option being an …
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Primary Systems and Voter Turnout: Measuring the Institutional Effect of Primary Type on Voter Turnout
Using the 1990, 1994 and 1998 Congressional mid-term elections, this study looks at whether the type of primary system in a person's state has an effect on whether or not that person will vote in the general election. The five types of primary systems (closed, semi-closed, semiopen, open and …
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Higher education institutions, voter registration, voter education, and voter participation: a study of college students in the 2016 presidential and 2018 mid-term congressional elections
… and the 2018 Mid-term Congressional Election, voter registration and voter participation rates showed significant improvements over previous trends in voters ages 18-29. This study aimed to understand the various environmental factors, campus features, and educational interventions used by …
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Voter verifiability in homomorphic election schemes
Voters are now demanding the ability to verify that their votes are cast and counted as intended. Most existing cryptographic election protocols do not treat the voter as a computationally-limited entity separate from the voting booth, and therefore do not ensure that the voting booth records the …
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The Voter ID: The New Black Codes
… scale. Are these laws being approved to prevent voter fraud... or are they being used to strip Africans in America of their right to vote? I examine the historical context of the Black Codes and look at the contemporary public policy of the United States through a Critical Race Theory (CRT) …
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FRANTIC VOTERS:HOW CONTEXT AFFECTS VOTER INFORMATION SEARCHES
Scholars have researched how voters make decisions for well over a half a century, but these studies are limited in what they are able to say about how voters make decisions because they have focused on the choice rather than the process. Most of these studies have focused on the choice that voters …
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Voter Registration: A Security and Cryptography Perspective
Security and transparency of voter registration systems are crucial properties that any electoral system must satisfy: without robust guarantees on the underlying voter data, trust in election results—and the system as a whole—is severely impacted. In this thesis, we study two fundamental problems …
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Liberalizing American Voting Laws: Institutionally Increasing Voter Turnout
… analyzing the impact voting laws have on voter turnout in national elections in the United States. I analyzed voter turnout in the 2008 Presidential Election and the 2010 off year election in all fifty states to see if voting restrictions declined turnout. My results show evidence that the …
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The effect of voter control on public policy
… decisions are only indirectly related to policy: voters choose an elected executive, who then appoints an unelected policy-maker, who in turn decides policy. In other situations, these decisions are more directly related to policy: voters bypass the executive and elect the policy-maker directly. …
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Voter participation in nineteenth century British parliamentary elections
A rational voter will vote only when the expected benefits outweigh the costs of voting. The costs of voting include not only transportation costs and wages forgone, but also any bribe to abstain. The product of the probability of affecting the outcome and the utility difference between the …
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The context of cognition and models of voter choice
Previous voting behavior research has assumed that there is one correct model of voting behavior with a set hierarchy of factor contributions. This research departs and assumes that the relative importance of a candidate's party, issue stands, ideology, and image may depend on the context in which …
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Political contributions, voter turnout, and the effects of redistricting
… political information also affects potential voters and their decision to vote or not to vote. A public signal on candidate quality can decrease voter turnout preventing elections from revealing the private information of potential voters on candidate quality. Finally, political campaigns …
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Turnout twist : higher voter turnout in lower-level elections
… claimed that subnational elections record lower voter turnout than national elections in most democracies. Contrary to this conventional wisdom, Japanese municipal elections often record considerably higher voter turnout than national elections, particularly in small towns and villages. Why is …
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Empirical Analyses of a Spatial Model of Voter Preferences
… how well the outcomes that they yield reflect voters' preferences, one needs very large data sets, since paradoxes that occur very rarely may have large impacts. Since such amounts of election data are currently unavailable, it is important to be able to use random procedures to generate data …
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Online Voting Platforms and the Future of Voter Turnout
As low-voter-turnout continues to be a concern for the political system in the U.S., the idea online voting platforms (OVPs), to reduce access and use barriers, has been debated. Lowlevel elections in several states across the country have experimented with OVPs through U.S.based internet voting …
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Investigating Economic Inequality And Voter Turnout In The Industrialized Democracies
This paper investigates economic inequality and voter turnout in a sample of 21 industrialized democracies using a pooled time series model of elections from 1970 to 1999. The findings demonstrate a connection between inequality and voter turnout wherein increases in inequality lead to reductions …
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An Analysis of Voter Turnout in Cuyahoga County, 1840-1860
… pathbreaking investigation of New York voters in the 1844 election initiated a new approach to the study of popular voting behavior. Benson's book postulates that political party membership during the second American party system was determined by religious and cultural factors. Jensen, …
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The referendum lighthouse: how state-level initiatives drive voter turnout
… types of ballot initiatives cause an increase in voter turnout at the state level. This study is unique in that rather than focusing on individual level voting behavior to explain why an individual may or may not be more likely to vote with the inclusion of ballot initiatives, I focus on aggregate …
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The 1969 Illinois Constitutional Convention Delegate Election and Voter Rationality
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317463.pdf: 12284196 bytes, checksum: db64bd0e99ac28691d8c78095a4e64c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Permanent misperceptions and the public sector: the median voter model
… argued that because of the rational ignorance of voters and the costs of information about marginal tax-costs, individual voter-taxpayers could be fooled permanently about their respective tax-prices of public goods and services, In comparison, such misperceptions of prices were considered …
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