This county-level study examines factors associated with the rate of voided presidential ballots in the 1996 elections … voting equipment that can be programmed to eliminate overvoting. The rate of voided ballots is lower in larger counties, and … generate the lowest rates of voided ballots among types of voting equipment, with punch card systems generating the highest …

Of those eligible, about 40% do not vote in presidential elections. When asked, about a quarter of those nonvoters will … lie to the survey takers and claim that they did. Increases in education are associated with higher voting rates and lower … rates of lying overall, but with increased rates of lying conditional on not voting. This paper proposes a model of voter …

research relates to turnout and voting literature in general, and to campaigning and voter motivation more specifically … instrument by revealing potentially relevant information to the signer which increases the benefit from voting or reduces its … cost. The analysis is based on the complete sample of Swiss federal initiatives between 1978 and 2000 with aggregate voting …

We conduct a model validation analysis of several behavioral models of voter turnout, using laboratory data. We call … about some of the experimentally controlled parameters — in this case voting costs. We use quantal response equilibrium as … the underlying, common structure for estimation, and estimate models of instrumental voting, altruistic voting, expressive …

I propose a game-theoretic model of costly voting that predicts significant turnout rates even when the electorate is … vote or not, an altruistic agent compares her private voting cost with the expected contribution of her vote to the welfare … model. I also show that when the fractions of altruistic agents are known, turnout rates will typically be close to zero in …

Why does the leftist party vote increase when turnout increases in some countries and not in others? Why does this … turnout and electoral results. This paper argues that in order to adequately address these questions we need to focus on three … elements: class voting, the mechanisms behind whether the correlation is observed over the short or long-term, and the use of …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole’s “feedback” case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …

studies strategic voting when voters have pure common values but may be ambiguity averse -- exhibit Ellsberg-type behavior …