The Complexity of Safe Manipulation under Scoring Rules Egor Ianovski Lan Yu Edith Elkind Mark C. Wilson
Abstract
[Slinko and White, 2008] have recently introduced a new model of coalitional manipulation of voting rules under limited communication, which they call safe strategic voting. The computational aspects of this model were ?rst studied by [Hazon and Elkind, 2010], who provide polynomial-time algorithms for ?nding a safe strategic vote under kapproval and the Bucklin rule. In this paper, we answer an open question of [Hazon and Elkind, 2010] by presenting a polynomial-time algorithm for ?nding a safe strategic vote under the Borda rule. Our results for Borda generalize to several interesting classes of scoring rules.