Definitions

1. Voting systems are either majority rule, proportional representation or plurality voting. (Web site)
2. Some voting systems are weighted in themselves, for example if a supermajority is required to change the status quo. (Web site)
3. The voting systems are used in 43 of the 58 counties in California by 9 million of the state's 15.7 million registered voters. (Web site)
4. Most voting systems are designed to prevent voters from proving how they voted. (Web site)
5. Online voting systems are subject to hacking and fraud.

Irv

1. IRV does not have momentum, but dissatisfaction with voting systems does,.Third parties, once educated, will support RV but not IRV and not approval and not Condorcet. (Web site)

Openstv Software

1. OpenSTV Software for computing a variety of voting systems including IRV, STV, and Condorcet. (Web site)

Ballot

1. In ranked ballot or "preference" voting systems, like Instant-runoff voting, the Borda count, or a Condorcet method, voters order the list of options from most to least preferred. (Web site)
2. In ranked ballot or "preference" voting systems, such as Instant-runoff voting, the Borda count, or a Condorcet method, voters order the list of options from most to least preferred. (Web site)

Certain Systems

1. The use of game theory to analyze voting systems also led to discoveries about the emergent strategic effects of certain systems. (Web site)

Plurality Voting System

1. This makes the plurality voting system among the simplest of all voting systems.

Recording Electronic

1. The issues also come as direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems are taking off. (Web site)

Voting System Criteria

1. Academic analysis of voting systems such as STV generally centers on the voting system criteria that they pass. (Web site)

Votehere

1. VoteHere has tentatively linked the suspect to a number of advocacy groups critical of electronic voting systems. (Web site)

Voting Theory

1. Voting theory has come to focus on voting system criteria almost as much as it does on particular voting systems.

Anything

1. Sequoia Voting Systems signed an agreement with VoteHere, but its not clear to me whether they ever did anything about it. (Web site)
2. Asked then why she didn't pass along what she knew, Clark said: "I didn't think it had anything to do with voting systems. (Web site)

Behavior

1. Likewise, Arrow's paradox involves behavior of voting systems that is surprising but all too true.

Reasons

1. For all of these reasons then, we in the United States can no longer afford to ignore the issue of voting systems. (Web site)

Office

1. And running for office in some voting systems may be more expensive than in others. (Web site)

Result

1. Voting systems then determine the result on the basis of the tally.
2. As a result, the performance of these electronic voting systems will be watched with keen eyes and worried minds. (Web site)

Problems

1. Based on reports from election experts, GAO compiled numerous examples of problems with electronic voting systems. (Web site)

Vendors

1. Vendors of electronic voting systems say the audit trail is in the machine. (Web site)

Legislature

1. Some western democracies have many more women in their legislature than others, and different voting systems are one of the major reasons. (Web site)

Way

1. As a result, there is no way to ensure that such voting systems are accurate or honest. (Web site)

Class

1. Bloc voting (or block voting) refers to a class of voting systems which can be used to elect several representatives from a single multimember constituency.
2. A class of similar methods is called positional voting systems. (Web site)

Family

1. In fact, for this reason some have suggested that STV can be considered a family of voting systems rather than a single system. (Web site)

State Law

1. Under state law, all new voting systems must be submitted for review to Jones office.

Comparative Study

1. Incredibly, there has been no comparative study conducted of all voting systems on any level. (Web site)

American People

1. The subject of voting systems has taken center stage, and is under intense scrutiny by policymakers, interest groups, and the American people in general.

Private Companies

1. This happened when voting systems, which should be considered part of the "public commons" were turned over to private companies. (Web site)

Work Best

1. In situations where comparisons are more subjective or items are difficult to compare, voting systems tend to work best.

Study

1. The study of formally defined voting systems is called voting theory, a subfield of political science, economics or mathematics. (Web site)

Comparative Analysis

1. This greatly complicates the comparative analysis of voting systems. (Web site)

People

1. I'd rather recommend people to watch Hacking Democracy, a great documentary that exposes the flaws in voting systems.

Party System

1. Some voting systems make it difficult for third party candidates to get elected and thus reinforce a two party system. (Web site)

States

1. Since passage of the Help America Vote Act in 2002, states have spent more than $2 billion in mostly federal funds to overhaul their voting systems.

Votes Cast

1. NIST says that voting systems should not rely on a machine's software to provide a record of the votes cast. (Web site)

Voting Machines

1. VoteHere never sold any voting machines that I can find, but apparently did set up some deals to embed its cryptography into some voting systems. (Web site)

Electronic Voting Systems

1. There are more than 120 security threats to the three most commonly purchased electronic voting systems, the study by the Brennan Center for Justice says. (Web site)
2. Salon.com - Hacking democracy - Article describing issues with the auditability of electronic voting systems, and pointing to areas of potential fraud.
3. The Office of Indiana Voting Systems will be established and research will be done on technology issues related to electronic voting systems. (Web site)

Electronic

1. Diebold Election Systems sells electronic voting systems used in states including California, Georgia, Ohio and Texas. (Web site)
2. Other Northern Virginia jurisdictions, and many counties across the state, use electronic voting systems exclusively. (Web site)
3. Overall, GAO found that "significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems" have been raised (p. (Web site)

Internet

1. An appropriate balance between security, accessibility and ease of use must be achieved before Internet voting systems should be deployed.
2. The goal of the first part is to derive the current state of the art of electronic and Internet voting systems in all their aspects.
3. The advent of the Internet has increased the interest in voting systems. (Web site)

Computer

1. Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and network security, voting systems, and algorithms.
2. It is also possible to simulate large numbers of virtual elections on a computer and see how various voting systems compare in terms of voter satisfaction. (Web site)

Systems

1. This conflicts somewhat with the style often used in writing about voting systems, in which names of systems and criteria have every word capitalized.
2. Systems which use them exclusively are called DRE voting systems.

Voting System

1. There is a featured overview of voting systems at Voting system.

Ballots

1. As we suspected tabulation of ballots has revealed problems with voting systems from all of the vendors.
2. If ballots are stored in a standard format, voting data can be exported to other voting systems, or to generic statistical analysis tools.

Election

1. Counties will need trained technical personnel to assist with the implementation of Internet Voting Systems for each election.

E-Voting

1. Analysis of the polling data vs actual data and voting systems supports the hypothesis that E-Voting may be to blame in the discrepancies.
2. E-voting gets touchy New electronic voting systems use touch screens and other tech tricks to mark and record ballots. (Web site)

Elections

1. See the Verifier Map for detailed information on voting systems used in each state and county in 2008 and recent elections.
2. Election.com, which ran the online voting systems, says more elections will take place on the Internet before the general election in November.

Plurality

1. Plurality is often conflated with Single-winner voting systems in general, in order to contrast it with Proportional Representation. (Web site)

Computerized

1. One of the primary concerns over computerized and online voting systems would be reliability. (Web site)

Party List

1. The highest averages method is one way of allocating seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems.

Votes

1. Or as political scientists often put it: voting systems are the means by which votes are translated into seats in the legislature. (Web site)

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3. Proportional Representation
4. Stv
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