I've gone down that rabbit hole, repeatedly. It's just too fascinating. Likewise, I feel obligated to bring up the Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (or index) metr

I've gone down that rabbit hole, repeatedly. It's just too fascinating. Likewise, I feel obligated to bring up the Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (or index) metric that seems to be favored by the approval/range voting crowd: basically estimating how utilitarian a given voting system can be. There's a fascinating write-up of their modeling results on github, with code (python). http://electology.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/ http://electology.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/ https://rangevoting.org/vsi.html https://rangevoting.org/vsi.html When it comes up in conversation (or I can work it into conversation), I push people to this - it has some great interactive visualizations https://ncase.me/ballot/ https://ncase.me/ballot/