Sentences with phrase «influenced voting preference»

The research applied Multivariate Regression Analysis combined with a Logit Model to the real data to identify statistically significant factors that have influenced voting preference simultaneously as well as the odds ratio in favour of Leave.

So suggests Neil Malhotra at Stanford University in California, who found that sports results can influence voting preferences.

Not exact matches

From the 1984 election, group ticket voting was introduced in order to reduce a high rate of informal voting but in 2016, group tickets were abolished to avoid undue influence of preference deals amongst parties that were seen as distorting election results [22] and a form of optional preferential voting was introduced.

Unlike AV, it does not give undue weight and influence to the second preference votes of minor parties, but could signficantly change electoral behaviour.

The firm is alleged to have harvested data of tens of millions of Facebook users without permission in order to design a software to predict and influence people's voting preferences.