2024
Approval-Based Committee Voting in Practice: A Case Study of (over-)Representation in the Polkadot Blockchain
Niclas Boehmer, Markus Brill, Alfonso Cevallos, Jonas Gehrlein, Luis Sánchez-Fernández, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin
AAAI 2024technical
We provide the first large-scale data collection of real-world approval-based committee elections. These elections have been conducted on the Polkadot blockchain as part of their Nominated Proof-of-Stake mechanism and contain around one thousand candidates and tens of thousands of (weighted) voters…