News tagged with voting booth
Rocking the vote from rocking chairs
For seniors, voting can be difficult: standing with a walker or cane in the voting booth, struggling to read the tiny print on the ballot or trying to punch the tiny button to vote for the intended. Despite the desire to ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Study: 'Carved-out' voters often struggle at ballot box
The age-old practice of dividing congressional districts evenly by population speaks to such American ideals as fairness and equality. But when a county's residents are carved into separate districts simply to maintain that ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 06, 2010 |
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Cryptographic voting debuts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT’s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Presidential primary 2008 polls: What went wrong
University of Michigan survey experts working with the American Association for Public Opinion Research have identified several reasons polls picked the wrong winners in the 2008 Presidential Primary.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Study finds voters concerned with privacy in US elections
Ever had the feeling that someone was looking over your shoulder while you voted?
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Marketers target kids with tech
Isabella Sweet doesn't wear a target on her chest. But kid marketers covet this 9-year-old as if she does. Perhaps it's because she's a techie.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Exposure to U.S. flag moves voters to the right
(PhysOrg.com) -- Expect even more flags at Republican campaign events. And if the Democrats were wise, they might well strip the stage of flags altogether, suggests a new Cornell study, the first to look at ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Voting in elections is stressful -- emotionally and physiologically
A new study, conducted has found that the level of cortisol -- the "stress hormone" -- in individuals immediately prior to casting a vote was significantly higher than in the same individuals in similar non-voting conditions. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Neurons cast votes to guide decision-making
(PhysOrg.com) -- We know that casting a ballot in the voting booth involves politics, values and personalities. But before you ever push the button for your candidate, your brain has already carried out an ...
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Electronic voting no threat yet to the old style ballot box
They held elections within days of each other: The Philippines, a lively democracy where politicians get shot dead in the street and Britain, the rock solid 'mother of all parliaments'.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Japan offers global 3-D telecasts in 2022 WC bid
High-tech Japan has promised to treat football fans worldwide to ultra-realistic live 3-D telecasts of World Cup matches should it win the right to host the 2022 edition.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 23, 2010 |
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What are the 'Hard Problems' in the social sciences?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just over a century ago, one of the world’s leading mathematicians posed this question to a number of his colleagues: What are the most important unsolved questions in mathematics?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 15, 2010 |
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First Internet, now bay window at space station
(AP) -- Life has never been so good off the planet, and it's about to get better.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Study: Race, class and gender shape religion's effect on American voters
(PhysOrg.com) -- How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socio-economic class and gender, reports a new Cornell study.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2009 |
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