Cumulative and quadratic voting are two distributional voting methods that are expressive, promoting fairness and inclusion, particularly in the realm of participatory budgeting. Despite these benefits, graphical voter interfaces for cumulative and quadratic voting are complex to implement and use effectively. As a result, such methods have not seen yet widespread adoption on digital voting platforms. This paper addresses the challenge by introducing an implementation and evaluation of cumulative and quadratic voting within a state-of-the-art voting platform: Stanford Participatory Budgeting. The findings of the study show that while voters prefer simple methods, the more expressive (and complex) cumulative voting becomes the preferred one compared to k-ranking voting that is simpler but less expressive. The implemented voting interface elements are found useful and support the observed voters' preferences for more expressive voting methods. *
翻译:累积投票与二次投票是两种具有表达性的分布式投票方法,能够促进公平性与包容性,尤其在参与式预算领域表现突出。然而,这两种投票方式的图形化选民界面在实施与有效使用上较为复杂,导致此类方法尚未在数字投票平台上得到广泛应用。本文通过在新一代投票平台——斯坦福参与式预算中实现并评估累积投票与二次投票,解决了这一挑战。研究结果表明,尽管选民偏好简单方法,但相比更简单却表达性较低的k排序投票,更具表达性(也更复杂)的累积投票更受青睐。研究发现,所实现的投票界面元素具有实用性,并支持了观察到的选民对更具表达性投票方法的偏好。