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Controlling Delegations in Liquid Democracy
Shiri Alouf-Heffetz, Tanmay Inamdar, Pallavi Jain, Yash More, Nimrod Talmon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07558 ht…

Controlling Delegations in Liquid Democracy
In liquid democracy, agents can either vote directly or delegate their vote to a different agent of their choice. This results in a power structure in which certain agents possess more voting weight than others. As a result, it opens up certain possibilities of vote manipulation, including control and bribery, that do not exist in standard voting scenarios of direct democracy. Here we formalize a certain kind of election control -- in which an external agent may change certain delegation arcs -…