Vote trading and subset sums

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Author/s: 
Sebastian Bervoets, Vincent Merlin, Gerhard J. Woeginger
Operations Research Letters
Issue number: 
Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2015
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Year: 
2015
Journal pages: 
99-102
We analyze the complexity of vote trading problems with equal-sized voting districts. For two allied vote-swapping parties, the problem is polynomially solvable. For three parties, the problem is NP-complete.
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