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Central to our concept of democracy is counting all votes equally. Who would support an election rule in which we add up all the votes and declare the person who came in second the winner? But that is exactly what can—and does—occur under the electoral college. In 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016, and, arguably, 1960, the […]
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Kevin R. McNamara
Voting laws recently passed or awaiting passage in Republican-controlled state legislatures along with the outrageous vote “audit” ongoing in Arizona have been widely covered in the press through a focus on the racial animus that underlies them. Rightly so, given the Republican Party’s increasingly explicit embrace of white-identity politics and the evidence from Georgia, where […]
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John B. Holbein, D. Sunshine Hillygus
Voter turnout among young Americans has been dismal since 18-year-olds earned the right to vote with the passage of the 26th amendment in 1971. Even in 2018—a high water mark for youth voting—a full 7 in 10 voters failed to turn out. In most Presidential and Midterm elections it’s not uncommon to see older voters […]
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Roderick P. Hart
I don’t know who will win the 2020 presidential race, but I do know who will lose: the biggest bully on the block since Billy Franklin beat-up Joey Tarnower in the sixth-grade and ran-off with his lunch money. The American people, I argue, are sick of political bullying and they’re going to put a stop […]
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Susan Stokes, S. Erdem Aytaç
Changes in the levels of political participation can alter the course of history. If turnout had been higher among young British voters in the 2016 European Union membership referendum, the United Kingdom might have decided to remain in the EU. If a wave of protests had not taken off in Kiev in the winter of […]
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Jérôme Lang, Ulle Endriss, Ariel D. Procaccia, Vincent Conitzer, Felix Brandt
Over the last two decades, the computational social choice research community has grown from a handful of enthusiasts to hundreds of researchers, who have painted a beautiful picture of the interaction between collective decision making and computer science. Our work on the Handbook of Computational Social Choice was motivated by the desire to celebrate the field’s […]
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Barry C. Burden, Charles Stewart III
Ever since the meltdown in Florida starting on election day 2000, there has been a spotlight on how elections are run. Since that time, the states have been the venue for many election reforms, lawsuits, innovations, and controversies. There have been massive improvements in voting technology, rapid increases in early voting, and whole host of […]
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Central to our concept of democracy is counting all votes equally. Who would support an election rule in which we add up all the votes and declare the person who came in second the winner? But that is exactly what can—and does—occur under the electoral college. In 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016, and, arguably, 1960, the […]
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Kevin R. McNamara
Voting laws recently passed or awaiting passage in Republican-controlled state legislatures along with the outrageous vote “audit” ongoing in Arizona have been widely covered in the press through a focus on the racial animus that underlies them. Rightly so, given the Republican Party’s increasingly explicit embrace of white-identity politics and the evidence from Georgia, where […]
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John B. Holbein, D. Sunshine Hillygus
Voter turnout among young Americans has been dismal since 18-year-olds earned the right to vote with the passage of the 26th amendment in 1971. Even in 2018—a high water mark for youth voting—a full 7 in 10 voters failed to turn out. In most Presidential and Midterm elections it’s not uncommon to see older voters […]
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Roderick P. Hart
I don’t know who will win the 2020 presidential race, but I do know who will lose: the biggest bully on the block since Billy Franklin beat-up Joey Tarnower in the sixth-grade and ran-off with his lunch money. The American people, I argue, are sick of political bullying and they’re going to put a stop […]
Read More
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Susan Stokes, S. Erdem Aytaç
Changes in the levels of political participation can alter the course of history. If turnout had been higher among young British voters in the 2016 European Union membership referendum, the United Kingdom might have decided to remain in the EU. If a wave of protests had not taken off in Kiev in the winter of […]
Read More
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Jérôme Lang, Ulle Endriss, Ariel D. Procaccia, Vincent Conitzer, Felix Brandt
Over the last two decades, the computational social choice research community has grown from a handful of enthusiasts to hundreds of researchers, who have painted a beautiful picture of the interaction between collective decision making and computer science. Our work on the Handbook of Computational Social Choice was motivated by the desire to celebrate the field’s […]
Read More
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Barry C. Burden, Charles Stewart III
Ever since the meltdown in Florida starting on election day 2000, there has been a spotlight on how elections are run. Since that time, the states have been the venue for many election reforms, lawsuits, innovations, and controversies. There have been massive improvements in voting technology, rapid increases in early voting, and whole host of […]
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