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My point is that voting is harder under approval voting. Plurality voting is broken, but people easily understand the strategy of voting for the lesser of two e
by winstonewert 10y ago
My point is that voting is harder under approval voting. Plurality voting is broken, but people easily understand the strategy of voting for the lesser of two evils. Under approval voting, there is no obvious strategy for deciding who should approve.
- caspianm 10y agoI would suggest voting for the lesser of two evils if you'd do that in a plurality voting system, plus whoever else you like better. Though there might be three equally likely winners you hate, in which case I dunno.
- ClayShentrup 10y agoVote for the person you would with Plurality, plus everyone you like better. That's an easy approximation. A formal statement is here. https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/threshold https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/threshold
- winstonewert 10y agoUsing that strategy, it is clearly harder to vote in approval voting then in plurality. You first have to figure out how you'd vote in plurality and then do something more. The question I was answering was: is there any way in which plurality is better then approval? Yes, it is easier to vote in plurality.