Voting in online deliberative assemblies

  • Authors:
  • Jeremy Pitt;Lloyd Kamara;Marek Sergot;Alexander Artikis

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College London, London, UK;Imperial College London, London, UK;Imperial College London, London, UK;Imperial College London, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICAIL '05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Voting is an essential element of mechanism design for multi-agent systems, and decision support for CSCW tools implementing online deliberative assemblies. Much attention has been given both to designing the process so that it is resistant to manipulation by strategic voting, and so that an automated system can follow rules of order as developed for the conduct of formal meetings. In this paper, we formalise a general voting protocol trying to take into account a right to cast a vote, and an entitlement that the vote cast is counted in the correct way. We discuss the design and development of a system for online deliberative assemblies, that incorporates this protocol as part of a suite of protocols which collectively implement rules of order. We conclude with some comments on the voting protocol as it relates to the 2004 ACM Statement on E-Voting.