Straight-party voting: What do voters think?

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 718-728

  Campbell, Bryan A ^a   Byrne, Michael D ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Efficiency; Human factors; Mental model; Straight party; Straight ticket; Usability; Voting

Indexed keywords

HUMAN FACTORS; MENTAL MODEL; MULTIPLE SELECTION; VOTING SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

VOTING MACHINES;

EID: 70450279153     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2009.2031947     Document Type: Article

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