> approval voting is not the best possible voting system Because that's range voting. Seriously though, you're thinking exactly right
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Score/range is in section 4 ;)
aug 24, 2025, 4:31 pm • 3 0 • view
if you're trying to break duopoly, score/approval voting are by far the best options, and arguably the only options. asitoughttobemagazine.com/2010/07/18/s... www.rangevoting.org/NESD
aug 24, 2025, 7:09 pm • 2 0 • view
IRV doesn't have to break monopoly and as seen in Ireland and Australia it hasn't
aug 24, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't know what you mean by it doesn't have to. it objectively doesn't but that's a major flaw of that system. not to mention it being complicated and inaccurate. some analysis we wrote in November 2006. www.rangevoting.org/AusIRV
aug 24, 2025, 7:20 pm • 3 0 • view
i think approval wins for its sheer simplicity and for not being notably worse than alternatives tbh
aug 24, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
The best votes are honest ("your favourite frontrunner and all the better ones" is a very sensible sentiment) and the most honest votes are good
aug 24, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
not quite. I've elaborated on this here with Warren Smith, a Princeton math PhD was arguably the world's top expert on voting theory. www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6
aug 24, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
my co-author there took his phd under John Horton Conway, who invented the game of life.
aug 24, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
no, it wins for being incredibly accurate and resistant to strategy, and also being precinct summable so it helps escape duopoly. The simplicity is just icing on the cake.
aug 24, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
"no," then a bunch of agreements with what he said
aug 24, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
a bunch of disagreements. You're confused.
aug 24, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
some people in Oregon are about to file an initiative for election by jury. this would be utterly transformative and blow alternative voting methods out of the water. www.electionbyjury.org/manifesto
aug 24, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
i think this is reasonable for some offices and extremely unreasonable for other offices
aug 24, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm very skeptical of it for anything more than a midsized city
aug 24, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
but there's not any evidence to support that skepticism..
aug 24, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
there's zero evidence that it's unsuitable for any offices. clayshentrup.medium.com/the-proporti...
aug 24, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Approval voting is just score voting on a binary 0 to 1 scale. The scale resolution doesn't make that big of a difference though.
aug 24, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Approval voting is almost as good as the best, and dead simple and cheap and transparent. it's overall the best bang for the buck by a light year. by a parsec even.
aug 24, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 1 • view