Dichotomy for Voting Systems

Edith Hemaspaandra, Lane A. Hemaspaandra

Scoring protocols are a broad class of voting systems. Each is defined by a vector $({\alpha }_1,{\alpha }_2,...,{\alpha }_m)$, ${\alpha }_1\ge {\alpha }_2\ge >...\ge {\alpha }_m$, of integers such that each voter contribu…