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On eligibility by the de Borda voting rules

Optimization and Control 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show that a necessary condition for eligibility of a candidate by the set of de Borda's voting rules in [H. Moulin (1988), Axioms of cooperative decision making] is not sufficient and we obtain a version of the criterion. Let r(ai)r(a_i) be the score vector of a candidate aia_i, RR be the set of all vectors r(ai)r(a_i), and let RR' be the Pareto boundary of the convex hull \convR\conv R. Then there is a scoring ss such that a candidate aa wins with respect to the de Borda voting rule βs\beta_s if and only if r(a)Rr(a)\in R'.

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@article{arxiv.math/0603039,
  title  = {On eligibility by the de Borda voting rules},
  author = {V. Yu. Kiselev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603039},
  year   = {2007}
}

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