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Counting interesting elections
We provide an elementary proof of a formula for the number of northeast
lattice paths that lie in a certain region of the plane. Equivalently, this
formula counts the lattice points inside the Pitman--Stanley polytope of an
n-tuple.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure; published versio
Research Note on Footnote 24 of the 6th Circuit Hunter Decision
The decision issued by the three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in the matter of Hunter v. Hamilton County Board of Elections contains a very interesting analysis of problems with Ohio’s law about counting provisional ballots when they are cast in “the right church, wrong pew” (RCWP)
Multiwinner Analogues of Plurality Rule: Axiomatic and Algorithmic Perspectives
We characterize the class of committee scoring rules that satisfy the
fixed-majority criterion. In some sense, the committee scoring rules in this
class are multiwinner analogues of the single-winner Plurality rule, which is
uniquely characterized as the only single-winner scoring rule that satisfies
the simple majority criterion. We define top--counting committee scoring
rules and show that the fixed majority consistent rules are a subclass of the
top--counting rules. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a
top--counting rule to satisfy the fixed-majority criterion. We find that,
for most of the rules in our new class, the complexity of winner determination
is high (that is, the problem of computing the winners is NP-hard), but we also
show examples of rules with polynomial-time winner determination procedures.
For some of the computationally hard rules, we provide either exact FPT
algorithms or approximate polynomial-time algorithms
Possible Winners in Noisy Elections
We consider the problem of predicting winners in elections, for the case
where we are given complete knowledge about all possible candidates, all
possible voters (together with their preferences), but where it is uncertain
either which candidates exactly register for the election or which voters cast
their votes. Under reasonable assumptions, our problems reduce to counting
variants of election control problems. We either give polynomial-time
algorithms or prove #P-completeness results for counting variants of control by
adding/deleting candidates/voters for Plurality, k-Approval, Approval,
Condorcet, and Maximin voting rules. We consider both the general case, where
voters' preferences are unrestricted, and the case where voters' preferences
are single-peaked.Comment: 34 page
E-voting discourses in the UK and the Netherlands
A qualitative case study of the e-voting discourses in the UK and the Netherlands was performed based on the theory of strategic niche management. In both countries, eight e-voting experts were interviewed on their expectations, risk estimations, cooperation and learning experiences. The results show that differences in these variables can partly explain the variations in the embedding of e-voting in the two countries, from a qualitative point of view
Ethics of e-voting: an essay on requirements and values in Internet elections
In this paper, we investigate ethical issues involved in the development and implementation of
Internet voting technology. From a phenomenological perspective, we describe how voting via the
Internet mediates the relation between people and democracy. In this relation, trust plays a major
role. The dynamics of trust in the relation between people and their world forms the basis for our
analysis of the ethical issues involved. First, we consider established principles of voting,
confirming the identity of our democracy, which function as expectations in current experiments
with online voting in the Netherlands. We investigate whether and how Internet voting can meet
these expectations and thereby earn trust, based on the experiments in the Netherlands. We identify
major challenges, and provide a basis for ethical and political discussion on these issues, especially
the changed relation between public and private. If we decide that we want to vote via the Internet,
more practical matters come into play in the implementation of the technology. The choices
involved here are discussed in relation to the mediating role of concrete voting technologies in the
relation between citizen and state
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