TL;DR研究扩展了先前的研究,提出一种更一般的半随机模型来考虑多数决原则下的联合影响问题。主要结论确定了在各种投票规则下,存在可以成功影响选举的大小为 B 的联合体的半随机的可能性。技术上的贡献是对于泊松多项式变量的性质进行了进一步的表征。
Abstract
For centuries, it has been widely believed that the influence of a small
coalition of voters is negligible in a large election. Consequently, there is a
large body of literature on characterizing the likelihood for an election to be
influenced when the votes follow certain distributions, especially the
likelihood of being manipulable by a single voter under