{"id":452,"date":"2025-12-20T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.rutgers.edu\/amelie-marian-cs-rutgers-edu\/?page_id=452"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:54:58","slug":"transparent-and-trustworthy-digital-democracy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.rutgers.edu\/amelie-marian-cs-rutgers-edu\/transparent-and-trustworthy-digital-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparent and Trustworthy Digital Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"452\" class=\"elementor elementor-452\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1db39c2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1db39c2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6575bd5\" data-id=\"6575bd5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ac451d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ac451d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Democratic participation increasingly depends on citizens\u2019 ability to interpret and evaluate complex political communication and decision mechanisms. Political discussion has become increasingly polarized, fragmented, and vulnerable to noise and manipulation, resulting in people distrusting the democratic system and its actors and disengaging from civic participation.<\/p><p>Beyond political discourse, democratic systems face structural computational challenges that current civic technologies do not address. Democratic procedures must aggregate preferences, allocate resources, and ensure equitable representation.<\/p><p>To address these challenges, this project works on:<\/p><ul><li><span style=\"font-size: 0.875rem\">Leveraging AI to interpret political text into ideological s<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.875rem\">tructure and provide users with evidence-grounded explanations\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.875rem\">of how candidates and institutions position themselves across policy\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.875rem\">domains.<\/span><\/li><li>Developing methods for analyzing uncertainty in voting systems when ballots are delayed, missing, or only partially observed. This work provides more transparent reporting, auditing, and explanation of ranked-choice election outcomes, particularly in settings where partial results and delayed ballots have contributed to public confusion and mistrust.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a6f977b\" data-id=\"a6f977b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14cbcf6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"14cbcf6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.rutgers.edu\/amelie-marian-cs-rutgers-edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-20-at-3.51.33\u202fPM.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-454\" alt=\"Possible Elimination Orders for the 2021 NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.rutgers.edu\/amelie-marian-cs-rutgers-edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-20-at-3.51.33\u202fPM.png 702w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.rutgers.edu\/amelie-marian-cs-rutgers-edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-20-at-3.51.33\u202fPM-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Possible Elimination Orders for the 2021 NYC\nDemocratic Mayoral Primary<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d8c7441 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d8c7441\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fc317d8\" data-id=\"fc317d8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2dc4fe1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2dc4fe1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"color: #993300\">PUBLICATIONS<\/span><\/h2><div><p>Han, Qishen, Am\u00e9lie Marian, and Lirong Xia. &#8220;Determining winners in elections with absent votes.&#8221;\u00a0<i>Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/i>. 2024.<\/p><p>Jelvani, Alborz, and Am\u00e9lie Marian. &#8220;Identifying possible winners in ranked choice voting elections with outstanding ballots.&#8221;\u00a0<i>Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing<\/i>. 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