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You assume most people will vote at random? That is a completely uninteresting case that does not happen in reality. People tend to approve of candidates they

• Spivak 8y ago
  Absolutely not. I'm saying that if in an election using approval voting people carried out my strategy that overall happiness with the results would be higher than if people voted according to the 'normal' instructions. Purely hypothetical, but to me illustrates the point that approval voting destroys valuable information about voter preferences because voters will turn out happier if they encode those preferences in their vote.
  • ClayShentrup 8y ago
    Total information throughput is about three major factors: - Ballot expressiveness - Strategic voting (which distorts sincere information) - Tabulation efficiency (e.g. IRV has more data on the ballot, but destroys a lot of it due to inefficient tabulation) You are making a common fallacy outlined here. https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/expressiveness https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/expressiveness When you look at total combined information throughput, Approval Voting does exceptionally well. http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html