Abstract. Security on electronic voting systems is fundamental; it must assure the integrity of all the elements involved or generated during a voting process. This paper presents a design of secure architectures for ...

How does the use of a secret vote affect the likelihood that legislators will punish their peers? Two contending arguments exist in the literature: some argue that secret voting may be prejudicial, while others argue that ...

This article addresses the paradox of unpopular corruption and popular corrupt politicians. It explores why corrupt politicians are reelected, paying particular attention to incumbent provision of public goods and voter ...

We comment on a paper that describes a closed-form formulation to Tensor Voting, a technique to perceptually group clouds of points, usually applied to infer features in images. The authors proved an analytic solution to ...

The article presents a comparative analysis of recent citizen?s reflections on politi-cal participation in Argentina and Brazil. Throughout the recollection of data from focus groups carried out in 2015 and 2016, we aim ...

This paper analyzes the content produced by the #Votelgbt cyberactivist campaign,  that emerged throughout the Brazilian election of 2014, in the digital communication networks distributed, aiming at increasing participation ...