Resilient Liquid Democracy: Mitigating Voting Power Imbalances via Secure Delegation Networks
This mechanism enhances liquid democracy by combining timed-release cryptography with ranked multi-delegation and personal fallback ballots. It addresses vulnerabilities like herding and delegate failure by sealing delegation choices during formation, ensuring transparency for tallying, and providing a safety net for voters. Experiments show this approach reduces vote loss under targeted failures from 26% to about 3%.