Generalizing the Majority Voting Scheme to Spatially Constrained Voting

Generalizing the majority voting scheme to conditional voting

In this paper we propose a new voting scheme for generalizing the classical majority voting system. In contrast to the classical voting method we can make good decision if the number of classifiers assigning the correct class label is less than the half of the overall number of classifiers. This new method can be applied to such problems when the decision is not only logical but is also require...

Majority voting leads to unanimity

We consider a situation where society decides, through majority voting in a secret ballot, between the alternatives of ‘reform’ and ‘status quo’. Reform is assumed to create a minority of winners, while being efficient in the Kaldor–Hicks sense.We explore the consequences of allowing binding transfers between voters conditional on the chosen alternative. In particular, we establish conditions u...

Voting on Majority Rules∗

We analyze an overlapping generations model of voting on “reform projects”. These resemble investments in that they first require some investment expenditure and later pay off. Since the time during which old people get the benefit is shorter, or because older people are more wealthy and hence pay more taxes, they are more conservative (against reforms) than young people. We show that if people...

Iterated Majority Voting

We study a model in which a group of agents make a sequence of collective decisions on whether to remain in the current state of the system or switch to an alternative state, as proposed by one of them. Examples for instantiations of this model include the step-wise refinement of a bill of law by means of amendments to be voted on, as well as resource allocation problems, where agents successiv...

A distributed minority and majority voting based redundancy scheme