The Proportional Veto Principle for Approval Ballots

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Hauptverfasser: Halpern, Daniel, Procaccia, Ariel D., Suksompong, Warut
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Halpern, Daniel
Procaccia, Ariel D.
Suksompong, Warut
author_facet Halpern, Daniel
Procaccia, Ariel D.
Suksompong, Warut
contents The proportional veto principle, which captures the idea that a candidate vetoed by a large group of voters should not be chosen, has been studied for ranked ballots in single-winner voting. We introduce a version of this principle for approval ballots, which we call flexible-voter representation (FVR). We show that while the approval voting rule and other natural scoring rules provide the optimal FVR guarantee only for some flexibility threshold, there exists a scoring rule that is FVR-optimal for all thresholds simultaneously. We also extend our results to multi-winner voting.
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spellingShingle The Proportional Veto Principle for Approval Ballots
Halpern, Daniel
Procaccia, Ariel D.
Suksompong, Warut
Computer Science and Game Theory
Theoretical Economics
The proportional veto principle, which captures the idea that a candidate vetoed by a large group of voters should not be chosen, has been studied for ranked ballots in single-winner voting. We introduce a version of this principle for approval ballots, which we call flexible-voter representation (FVR). We show that while the approval voting rule and other natural scoring rules provide the optimal FVR guarantee only for some flexibility threshold, there exists a scoring rule that is FVR-optimal for all thresholds simultaneously. We also extend our results to multi-winner voting.
title The Proportional Veto Principle for Approval Ballots
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
Theoretical Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01395