Election Science: Convergence Accelerator Workshop Proposal

选举科学：融合加速器研讨会提案

• 批准号: 2122039
• 负责人: Charles Stewart
• 金额: $ 9.54万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2021-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122039&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Election; Science; Convergence; Accelerator; Workshop

This timely workshop addresses improving election administration, a critical component of democracy.The objective of this workshop series is to help understand and build confidence in the outcomes of US elections, using the many years of scholarly study in this area as the background. The workshop series will build upon prior work and extant knowledge to further explore the topic in the context of the Convergence Accelerator. The workshop discussions will be centered around the theme of “building confidence”, where “confidence” is defined as (1) scientific or empirical certainty that the elections were performed accurately and securely and (2) that winners identified, in fact, received more votes than the losers, and that the election was conducted fairly.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本次研讨会的主题是改善选举管理，这是民主的一个重要组成部分。本次研讨会系列的目的是帮助理解和建立对美国选举结果的信心，利用多年来在这一领域的学术研究作为背景。研讨会系列将建立在以前的工作和现有的知识，以进一步探讨融合加速器的背景下的主题。讲习班的讨论将围绕“建立信心”这一主题展开，其中“信心”的定义是：（1）从科学或经验上确定选举是准确和安全进行的;（2）确定的获胜者实际上比失败者获得更多的选票，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。