Contrary to your intuition, approval voting performs exceptionally well with any mixture of strategic or honest voters. http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html

Contrary to your intuition, approval voting performs exceptionally well with any mixture of strategic or honest voters. http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html http://scorevoting.net/AppCW http://scorevoting.net/AppCW And this is true regardless of whether there is any objective "meaning" to the votes. In mathematical terms, approving the candidate means you prefer that candidate to the expected utility of the winner.