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Six Candidates Suffice to Win a Voter Majority

Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2024
Moses Charikar
Alexandra Lassota
Prasanna Ramakrishnan
Adrian Vetta
Kangning Wang
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Appendix:30 Pages
Abstract

A cornerstone of social choice theory is Condorcet's paradox which says that in an election where nn voters rank mm candidates it is possible that, no matter which candidate is declared the winner, a majority of voters would have preferred an alternative candidate. Instead, can we always choose a small committee of winning candidates that is preferred to any alternative candidate by a majority of voters?

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