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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Broad Support for Photo ID Voting Requirements -- 2. Voter Fraud is Real but it can be Stopped -- 3. Voter Fraud is a Legitimate Threat -- 4. Voter Fraud in the United States is Virtually Nonexistent -- 5. Voter ID Laws Empower Marginalized Citizens -- 6. Voter ID Laws Disenfranchise Minority and Poor Voters -- 7. Biometric Solutions Should be Pursued to Replace Voter ID Cards -- 8. Allowing Noncitizens to Vote is the Right Thing to do -- 9. State Laws should be Amended to Allow Ex-Felons to Vote -- 10. Felons Lose their Right to Vote when they Break the Law -- 11. Gerrymandering is a Form of Legal Voter Fraud -- 12. US Primary System Disenfranchises Millions of Voters -- 13. The Broken US Voting System is an Assault on Voting Rights -- 14. Online Voting is Promising but will Need Transparency to Avoid Fraud -- 15. Experts Believe Online Voting is Inevitable -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

Voter disenfranchisement occurs when people who have the right to vote are prevented from doing so. Students study its ugly history in the South but rarely learn about worrisome current examples of voter disenfranchisement. African American and Hispanic voters are much more likely to be told that they lack the correct identification to vote, have their names incorrectly removed from voting rolls, or learn that their polling place changed at the last minute. Additionally, individuals with criminal convictions face impediments to their right to vote. Many argue that this constitutes disenfranchisement, with fierce opinions on both sides of the issue. This must-have examines the scope of the problem and discusses recent efforts to stop this violation of civil rights.

Hauptbeschreibung In der internationalen Politikwissenschaft ist?sterreich vor allem f?r sein stabiles Parteiensystem und den Wahlerfolgen der FP? bekannt. Im Bereich der vergleichenden Wahlforschung wurde?sterreich bisher aufgrund unzureichender Daten oft vernachl?ssigt. Das Buch>The Austrian Voter

Motivated by the need for more flexible decision-making mechanisms in the European Union, the paper proposes a simple but novel voting scheme for binary decisions taken by committees that meet regularly over time. At each meeting, committee members are allowed to store their vote for future use; the decision is then taken according to the majority of votes cast. The possibility of shifting votes intertemporally allows agents to concentrate their votes when preferences are more intense, and although the scheme will not in general achieve full efficiency, making votes storable typically leads to ex ante welfare gains. The analysis in the paper suggests that the result will hold if one of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) the number of voters is above a minimum threshold; (ii) preferences are not too polarized; (iii) the horizon is long enough.

Storable votes allow the minority to win occasionally while treating every voter equally and increasing the efficiency of decision-making, without the need for external knowledge of voters' preferences. This book complements the theoretical discussion with several experiments, showing that the promise of the idea is borne out by the data: the outcomes of the experiments and the payoffs realized match very closely the predictions of the theory

Ce texte a pour ambition de revenir sur une procédure d'expérimentation destinée à tester l'impact du vote par approbation ainsi que du vote par note sur l'ampleur de ce qu'on a coutume d'appeler le vote utile. Les résultats de ces expériences, menées lors des élections présidentielles françaises de 2007 et de 2012, ont fait l'objet de deux articles publiés dans la Revue économique. Notre objectif est ici d'attirer l'attention du lecteur sur la conception implicite qui sous-tend ces expériences : le vote comme outil de dévoilement des préférences individuelles. Une telle orientation se fait au détriment d'une conception stratégique du vote, c'est-à-dire envisagé comme processus de coordination. La procédure expérimentale mise en place tend à gommer cette dimension, en ne fournissant pas aux votants de repères informationnels relatifs aux choix d'autrui. On parlera à cet effet d'isolation informationnelle.

AbstractThis article reports on an Internet-based quasi-experiment that took place during the French 2012 presidential election. We designed a website where French voters could vote under different voting rules. Based on the observation of more than 8,000 participants, we find that a substantial minority (10% to 15%) vote differently under the different systems, with 17% of the voters not voting for their preferred candidate in the one-round election, this percentage dropped to 12% in the alternative vote (first choice). Compared to the two-rounds election, at the aggregate level, the top two candidates get slightly more votes under one round, while the minor candidates obtain more first choices under the alternative vote. These findings are consistent with what the literature suggests about the impact of these voting systems on voters' choice.

This study examined the newsjunkie characteristic—intrinsic need for orientation (INFO)—as a predictor of being registered to vote, intention to vote, and voter conscientiousness among a large sample of U.S. adults (N = 2,059), while controlling for media use, news consumption, political partisanship, and demographics. INFO assesses the extent to which people access news in their downtime, feel discomfort when they cannot get news, check news among the first things they do daily, and believe that following news connects them with others. The current study is the first to examine relationships between the sustained, psychological INFO trait and political participation. INFO rests upon theoretical frameworks of uses and gratifications and self‐determination theory, both of which are employed in this study. INFO was positively correlated with being registered to vote, with intending to vote in the 2020 U.S. election, and with voter conscientiousness, even after controlling for numerous other variables. Additionally, INFO was still positively associated with the political participation variables after political news consumption was included as a mediator in three mediation analyses.