Sybil-Resilient Social Choice

07/29/2018
by   Gal Shahaf, et al.
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We consider an electorate composed of both genuine and fake voters, aka sybils, and investigate the resilience of its decision making against two types of sybil attacks: Sybils enforcing decisions on the genuine voters, and sybils blocking decisions by the genuine voters. We follow Reality-Aware Social Choice and use the status quo as the anchor of sybil resilience, which we characterize by sybil safety -- the inability of sybils to change the status quo against the will of the genuine voters, and sybil liveness -- the ability of the genuine voters to change the status quo against the will of the sybils. We show that supermajorities are sybil-resilient for voting on a single alternative to the status quo, and describe several rules which are sybil-resilient for voting on multiple alternatives to the status quo. Specifically, we show that these rules are safe against arbitrarily-high sybil penetration, but can uphold liveness only if sybil penetration is under one third. We present a simple and efficient sybil-resilient Reality-aware Condorcet-consistent voting process and analyze its liveness as it depends on the degree of sybil penetration.

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