Persuading Voters in District-based Elections

Authors: Matteo Castiglioni, Nicola Gatti5244-5251

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Research Type Theoretical We study the efficiency and complexity of signaling in district-based elections with two candidates. First, we compare private, public, and semi-public signaling schemes in terms of efficiency when used to manipulate elections, showing that private signaling schemes perform arbitrarily better than (semi-)public schemes. Then, we show that optimal private signaling schemes can be computed efficiently, while the direct use of the results provided by Castiglioni, Celli, and Gatti (2020a) shows that the problem is inapproximable with (semi-)public signaling. However, we prove that multi-criteria Polynomial-Time Approximation Schemes (PTASs) for public and semi-public signaling schemes are possible when some relaxations are made.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Matteo Castiglioni, Nicola Gatti Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133, Milan, Italy matteo.castiglioni@polimi.it, nicola.gatti@polimi.it
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