Copeland voting: ties matter

  • Authors:
  • Piotr Faliszewski;Edith Hemaspaandra;Henning Schnoor

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY;Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY;Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We study the complexity of manipulation for a family of election systems derived from Copeland voting via introducing a parameter α that describes how ties in head-to-head contests are valued. We show that the thus obtained problem of manipulation for unweighted Copelandα elections is NP-complete even if the size of the manipulating coalition is limited to two. Our result holds for all rational values of α such that 0