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I think you're in agreement with me, unless I somehow said something backwards. I think that approval is equal to or better than plurality (FPTP) in every crit

by elihu 6y ago

I think you're in agreement with me, unless I somehow said something backwards. I think that approval is equal to or better than plurality (FPTP) in every criteria I'm aware of. (One criteria you could argue about is later-no-harm; IRV passes, but approval voting does not. It's kind of silly though to say that it's safe in RCV to put lower ranked options below your first choice when in RCV it isn't even always safe to put your first choice first. FPTP adheres to later no harm by not allowing you to vote for anyone but your first choice in the first place, so one could reasonably say that Approval isn't really worse than FPTP, except as a sort of technicality.)

godelski 6y ago
I believe we're in agreement. I was coming to your defense since there seemed to be some confusion among readers who didn't like your extension. Maybe wording? But yeah, I think on basically every metric cardinal is better than ordinal methods which are better than plurality. The whole IRV push seems odd to me when approval (or STAR) is both simpler, responds better to spoilers (the main concern?), and obtains a substantially higher VSE. I don't think IRV solves enough of the problems to make a meaningful difference (I've brought up Australia a lot in this thread).