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Voting Rules that are Unbiased but not Transitive-Symmetric

Combinatorics 2020-02-11 v1

Abstract

We explore the relation between two natural symmetry properties of voting rules. The first is transitive-symmetry -- the property of invariance to a transitive permutation group -- while the second is the "unbiased" property of every voter having the same influence for all i.i.d. probability measures. We show that these properties are distinct by two constructions -- one probabilistic, one explicit -- of rules that are unbiased but not transitive-symmetric.

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@article{arxiv.1907.01685,
  title  = {Voting Rules that are Unbiased but not Transitive-Symmetric},
  author = {Aadyot Bhatnagar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.01685},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Electronic Journal of Combinatorics