Total information throughput is about three major factors: - Ballot expressiveness - Strategic voting (which distorts sincere information) - Tabulation effic

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