: votingpolitical participationexpressive behavioursDespite the likelihood of an individual vote changing the final outcome is close to zero and voting is not costless, we see significant voter turnout in electioSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
MIKE KELLY
the relationship between early voting in a state and the final voting totals there has beenweak, and attempts to make inferences from early voting data have made fools of otherwise smart people. In the 2014 midterms, Democrats
Either voting is optional, in which case many citizens will not in fact have ‘consented’ (almost half, in the case of many Western liberal democracies), or voting is compulsory, in which case it cannot be a sign of...
Voting for All the Wrong Reasons - Why We often Choose Candidates Based on Issues they Have No Control Over:Ilya Somin
We then use these points to discuss four general types of institutions—general elections, legislatures, minipublics, and minipublics embedded in referendum processes—that combine talking and voting, with the aim of identifying designs that do a better or worse job of capitalizing upon the ...
"We are not yet on the path toward stabilizing the warming of our planet below dangerous levels," Mann previously told Live Science in an email. "Earth Day is an opportunity to have a conversation about what we need to do. Truth be told, every day should be Earth Day. Without a livabl...
Do Republicans vote on Super Tuesday? Why is absentee voting not allowed? Does everyone vote on Super Tuesday? Why don?t people vote for third parties in the United States? Why do some states have more electoral votes? Why are there 538 Electoral College votes? Is early voting considered ab...
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"There are about a dozen states in which problems have been reported, specifically with electronic voting systems," said Marian Schneider, president of the elections integrity organization Verified Voting. "The problems we’re seeing are diffuse. They don’t seem to be systemic. But in the local...